Sentimental literature and Anglo-Scottish identity, 1745-1820 /

"What did it mean to be British, and more specifically to feel British, in the century following the parliamentary union of Scotland and England? Juliet Shields departs from recent accounts of the Romantic emergence of nationalism by recovering the terms in which eighteenth- and early nineteent...

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Main Author: Shields, Juliet, 1976-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 86.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the politics and sentiments of union
  • The Ossian controversy and the racial beginnings of Britain
  • British masculinity and Scottish self-control
  • Sentimental correspondences and the boundaries of British identity
  • National tales and the domestication of the Scottish Highlands
  • Rebellions and re-unions in the historical novel.