Essential Scots scrutinizes diverse texts, exposing how the "essential" Scot, allegedly possessed of a uniquely durable, influential identity, shaped the literary-cultural narrative imagination from 1603-1832, with implications for the twenty-first century.
Essential Scots scrutinizes diverse texts, exposing how the "essential" Scot, allegedly possessed of a uniquely durable, influential identity, shaped the literary-cultural narrative imagination from 1603-1832, with implications for the twenty-first century.
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Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Rivka Swenson is associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Essential Scottishness and the Form of Original Anglo-Scottish Discontent One: Writing Anglo-Scottish Unionism and its Discontents in 1603 and 1707: Francis Bacon, Daniel Defoe, and English Anxieties of Narration Two: Writing Reunion, Rewriting Union for the Atomic Scot: Tobias Smollett's Traveling Types after the '45 and Seven Years War Three: Writing Revolution as Essential Recovery: Samuel Johnson's Return to Scotland after Ossian Part II: Unionism and the Challenge of the Individual in Early Nineteenth-Century Scottish Writing Four: Individual Concerns, the Mock-Gothic, and Marriage Trouble: Anglo-Scottish Self-Difference in Susan Ferrier's Laboratory Five: Describing the Subnational Hinge in 1822: Robert Mudie and the Aesthetic Politics of the Synthetic British Text Coda: Walter Scott and the Legacy of Chosen Scottishness Bibliography Index About the Author
Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Essential Scottishness and the Form of Original Anglo-Scottish Discontent One: Writing Anglo-Scottish Unionism and its Discontents in 1603 and 1707: Francis Bacon, Daniel Defoe, and English Anxieties of Narration Two: Writing Reunion, Rewriting Union for the Atomic Scot: Tobias Smollett's Traveling Types after the '45 and Seven Years War Three: Writing Revolution as Essential Recovery: Samuel Johnson's Return to Scotland after Ossian Part II: Unionism and the Challenge of the Individual in Early Nineteenth-Century Scottish Writing Four: Individual Concerns, the Mock-Gothic, and Marriage Trouble: Anglo-Scottish Self-Difference in Susan Ferrier's Laboratory Five: Describing the Subnational Hinge in 1822: Robert Mudie and the Aesthetic Politics of the Synthetic British Text Coda: Walter Scott and the Legacy of Chosen Scottishness Bibliography Index About the Author
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