Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English Writing, 1707-1832Bucknell University Press, 2007 - 274 páginas Feeling British argues that the discourse of sympathy both encourages and problematizes a sense of shared national identity in eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature and culture. Although the 1707 Act of Union officially joined England and Scotland, government policy alone could not overcome centuries of feuding and ill will between these nations. Accordingly, the literary public sphere became a vital arena for the development and promotion of a new national identity, Britishness. Feeling British starts by examining the political implications of the Scottish Enlightenment's theorizations of sympathy the mechanism by which emotions are shared between people. From these philosophical beginnings, this study tracks how sympathetic discourse is deployed by a variety of authors - including Defoe, Smollett, Johnson, Wordsworth, and Scott - invested in constructing, but also in questioning, an inclusive sense of what it means to be British. |
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... Scottish to join their national destinies . Writing initially for an English audience , and noting that " National ... Scots are " Natives of the same Island , ally'd by Intermarriage , both in Kings , Nobility , and Common People ...
... Scottish to join their national destinies . Writing initially for an English audience , and noting that " National ... Scots are " Natives of the same Island , ally'd by Intermarriage , both in Kings , Nobility , and Common People ...
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... Scottish concerns , especially those of the Kirk , which vehemently opposed the Union on religious grounds . Preparing to rehearse what the Scots stand to gain , Defoe works up a remarkable panegyric on the qualities he claims inhere in ...
... Scottish concerns , especially those of the Kirk , which vehemently opposed the Union on religious grounds . Preparing to rehearse what the Scots stand to gain , Defoe works up a remarkable panegyric on the qualities he claims inhere in ...
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... Scots term for " merchant " ) well after the Union had taken effect , indicates the ongoing , widespread resistance to the idea that the English and Scots could learn to become a unified nation . Such opposition moved from pamphlet wars ...
... Scots term for " merchant " ) well after the Union had taken effect , indicates the ongoing , widespread resistance to the idea that the English and Scots could learn to become a unified nation . Such opposition moved from pamphlet wars ...
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... Scottish indicates the extent to which the Scots played key roles in shaping the contours of British identity as it was constructed in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century . That their attempts to produce and ...
... Scottish indicates the extent to which the Scots played key roles in shaping the contours of British identity as it was constructed in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century . That their attempts to produce and ...
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... Scottish Union took place largely through the bullying tactics of England , which essentially overwhelmed and ... Scots ' significant cultural contributions to the Union . As we will see shortly , since the Union's terms allowed ...
... Scottish Union took place largely through the bullying tactics of England , which essentially overwhelmed and ... Scots ' significant cultural contributions to the Union . As we will see shortly , since the Union's terms allowed ...
Contenido
That Propensity We Have Sympathy National Identity and the Scottish Enlightenment | 26 |
Fools of Prejudice Smollett and the Novelization of National Identity | 61 |
We Are Now One People Boswell Johnson and the Renegotiation of AngloScottish Relations | 99 |
Harp of the North Romantic Poetry and the Sympathetic Uses of Scotland | 134 |
To be at once another and the same Scotts Waverley Novels and the Ends of Sympathetic Britishness | 170 |
Imperfect Sympathies and the Devolution of Britishness | 208 |
Notes | 214 |
Bibliography | 250 |
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Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English ... Evan Gottlieb Vista de fragmentos - 2007 |
Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English ... Evan Gottlieb Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
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