Scotland, Britain, Empire : Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 /

Scotland, Britain, Empire : Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 /

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"Scotland, Britain, Empire takes on a cliche that permeates writing from and about the literature of the Scottish Highlands. Popular and influential in its time, this literature fell into disrepute for circulating a distorted and deforming myth that aided in Scotland's marginalization by c...

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Main Author: McNeil, Kenneth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2007]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Literatur > Englisch > Motiv (Literatur) > Grossbritannien > Highlands > Geschichte > 1760-1860.
Englische Literatur > Schottland > Romantik.
Imperialismus > Motiv > Englische Literatur.
Englische Literatur > Motiv > Imperialismus.
Englische Literatur > Motiv > Schottland.
Scottish literature.
Nationalism in literature.
National characteristics, Scottish, in literature.
Literature.
International relations.
Imperialism in literature.
Ethnology in literature.
English literature > Scottish authors.
Civilization > Historiography.
Civilization, Celtic, in literature.
Imperialisme dans la litterature.
Nationalisme dans la litterature.
Civilisation celtique dans la litterature.
Ethnologie dans la litterature.
Écossais dans la litterature.
Litterature ecossaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > Auteurs ecossais > Histoire et critique.
Scottish literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > Scottish authors > History and criticism.
England > Grossbritannien > Schottland > Geschichte > 1760-1860.
Schottland > Grossbritannien > England > Geschichte > 1760-1860.
Highlands > Motiv (Literatur) > Englisch > Geschichte > 1760-1860.
Schottland > England > Geschichte 19. Jh.
Schottland > England > Geschichte 18. Jh.
England > Schottland > Geschichte 18. Jh.
Schottland > Motiv > Englische Literatur.
England > Schottland > Geschichte 19. Jh.
Scotland > Highlands.
Scotland.
England.
Écosse > Civilisation > Historiographie.
Écosse > Relations > Angleterre.
Scotland > Civilization > Historiography.
Scotland > Relations > England.
Highlands (Scotland) > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Native tongue": Ossian, national origins, and the problem of translation
  • Roby Roy and the King's visit: modernity and the nation-as-tribe
  • Britain's "Imperial man": Walter Scott, David Stewart, and Highland masculinity
  • "Petticoated devils": Highland soldiers, martial races, and the Indian mutiny
  • "Not absolutely a native nor entirely a strange": Anne Grant, Queen Victoria, and the Highland travelogue.

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