Scotland and the First World War

Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Bannockburn
Herausgeber: Plain, Gill

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Produktbeschreibung

Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation, belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland's encounter with the First World War. In a series of thematically linked essays, experts from the fields of literature, history and cultural studies examine how Scotland remembers war, and how remembering war has shaped Scotland.

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Produktdetails

• Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9781611487763
• ISBN-10: 1611487765
• Artikelnr.: 45467191

Autorenporträt

Gill Plain is professor of English at the University of St. Andrews.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Anniversary
Culture and the legacy of Bannockburn Gill Plain Part I: Anniversary
Culture 1. Missing Dates and Magic Numbers: Reflections on 1914 Fran
Brearton 2. Bruce, Wallace and the Diminished Present, 1800-1964 Graeme
Morton Part II: Making the Myths of War and Nation 3. "Men Brave And
Strong": Bannockburn, the Auld Alliance and Scottish Martial Identity in
the Late Middle Ages Michael Brown 4. "Not my land's hills": War and the
Problem of Scottish Homecoming Caroline McCracken-Flesher 5. Medieval
Battlefields and National Narratives, 1830-1918 Carol Symes 6. Bannockburn
after Baston Robert Crawford Part III: Making the Memory of the First World
War 7. "The Spirit of the Crusaders": Scottish Peculiarities, British
Commonalities and European Convergences in the Memorialisation of the Great
War Stefan Goebel 8. Buchan, Bannockburn and Beyond: popular histories of
Scotland's martial past Catriona M. M. Macdonald 9. Women, War and
Internationalism: Notes towards a Counter-History Margaret R. Higonnet 10.
Freedom from judgement above? Predestination and Cultural Trauma in
Scottish Gaelic Poetry of World War I Peter Mackay 11. Shades of Bruce:
Independence and Union in First-World War Scottish Literature David Goldie
Bibliography Notes on Contributors