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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... begin to look less certain . In his enthusiasm for promoting the mutual advantages of the Union , in other words , Defoe momentarily reveals the circular logic of his argu- ment : the Union will create those mutual sympathies whose ...
... begin to look less certain . In his enthusiasm for promoting the mutual advantages of the Union , in other words , Defoe momentarily reveals the circular logic of his argu- ment : the Union will create those mutual sympathies whose ...
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... Begin- ning just before the Union and ending with the death of Walter Scott , the period 1707—1832 comprehends the construction of Anglo - British national identity from its modern inception to the passage of the First Reform Bill ...
... Begin- ning just before the Union and ending with the death of Walter Scott , the period 1707—1832 comprehends the construction of Anglo - British national identity from its modern inception to the passage of the First Reform Bill ...
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... begin to understand the Scottish Enlightenment's inter- est in sympathy in terms of its specific origins in a moment of national uncertainty and need . In fact , their labors addressed the needs of both Scotland and England . As ...
... begin to understand the Scottish Enlightenment's inter- est in sympathy in terms of its specific origins in a moment of national uncertainty and need . In fact , their labors addressed the needs of both Scotland and England . As ...
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... begin until the last decades of the eighteenth century , fiction ac- quired popularity ( and , more slowly , prestige ) throughout the century . Along with other prose forms like the review essay and the travel mem- oir , it became one ...
... begin until the last decades of the eighteenth century , fiction ac- quired popularity ( and , more slowly , prestige ) throughout the century . Along with other prose forms like the review essay and the travel mem- oir , it became one ...
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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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