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Scots in London in the Eighteenth Century is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores, through the experiences of individuals and groups ranging from James Boswell and his circle at one end of the social spectrum to highland folk musicians at the other, the reasons why Scottish men, women, and children made the long journey south to London and their reactions to the great metropolis once there. Through the varied approaches of historians, art historians, literary critics, and musicologists, this book addresses a series of interconnected themes including the group dynamics that gave rise to periodic "Scotophobia.…mehr

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Scots in London in the Eighteenth Century is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores, through the experiences of individuals and groups ranging from James Boswell and his circle at one end of the social spectrum to highland folk musicians at the other, the reasons why Scottish men, women, and children made the long journey south to London and their reactions to the great metropolis once there. Through the varied approaches of historians, art historians, literary critics, and musicologists, this book addresses a series of interconnected themes including the group dynamics that gave rise to periodic "Scotophobia.
Autorenporträt
Stana Nenadic is senior lecturer in social history at the University of Edinburgh and has been a commissioner of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland since 2001.