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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shields, Juliet, 1976-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:	Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 86.
Subjects:	English literature > Scottish authors > History and criticism. Scottish literature > 18th century > History and criticism. Scottish literature > 19th century > History and criticism. National characteristics, British, in literature. National characteristics, Scottish, in literature. Nationalism and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Nationalism and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Sympathy in literature.
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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.