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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... reader , interlocutor , and friend . The follow- ing colleagues across both the Continent and the Atlantic have also ... readers at Bucknell University Press for their construc- tive criticisms . WHEN ONLY ONE AUTHOR IS NAMED ON THE ...
... reader , interlocutor , and friend . The follow- ing colleagues across both the Continent and the Atlantic have also ... readers at Bucknell University Press for their construc- tive criticisms . WHEN ONLY ONE AUTHOR IS NAMED ON THE ...
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... readers the idea that it is natural for the English and Scottish to join their national destinies . Writing initially for an English audience , and noting that " National Prejudices are some of the worst sort of Humane Antipathies ...
... readers the idea that it is natural for the English and Scottish to join their national destinies . Writing initially for an English audience , and noting that " National Prejudices are some of the worst sort of Humane Antipathies ...
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... readers that pure Englishmen do not exist , since they have always been a " com- pounded Breed , / . . . Deriv'd from all the Nations under Heav'n . " ) In this case , however , what is remarkable about the situation of England and ...
... readers that pure Englishmen do not exist , since they have always been a " com- pounded Breed , / . . . Deriv'd from all the Nations under Heav'n . " ) In this case , however , what is remarkable about the situation of England and ...
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... readers from both sides of the Tweed to imag- ine themselves as fellow members of their newly expanded nation - state . While today sympathy is usually treated synonymously with empa- thy , compassion , or pity , in the eighteenth ...
... readers from both sides of the Tweed to imag- ine themselves as fellow members of their newly expanded nation - state . While today sympathy is usually treated synonymously with empa- thy , compassion , or pity , in the eighteenth ...
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... readers . Published only a few years after the defeat of Charles Stuart's Jacobite army at Culloden , Roderick Random ( 1748 ) uses a first - person narrator to elicit readerly sympathy for its epony- mous , distinctively North British ...
... readers . Published only a few years after the defeat of Charles Stuart's Jacobite army at Culloden , Roderick Random ( 1748 ) uses a first - person narrator to elicit readerly sympathy for its epony- mous , distinctively North British ...
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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