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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... he is " very sorry to note a Truth so little to our Consola- tion " : " that a Firmer Union of Policy with Less Union of Affection has hardly been known in the whole World . " 2 This was not the first time Defoe had exerted his 11.
... he is " very sorry to note a Truth so little to our Consola- tion " : " that a Firmer Union of Policy with Less Union of Affection has hardly been known in the whole World . " 2 This was not the first time Defoe had exerted his 11.
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... tion.11 Like other recent scholars of eighteenth - century Anglo - Scottish liter- ary and cultural history , I take my cue from Linda Colley's influential account of the formation of modern British identity as it was developed ...
... tion.11 Like other recent scholars of eighteenth - century Anglo - Scottish liter- ary and cultural history , I take my cue from Linda Colley's influential account of the formation of modern British identity as it was developed ...
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... tion between the Scottish and American experiences , however , my exclusive focus on Anglo - Scottish sympathy allows me to examine in more detail the development of " sympathetic Britishness " over INTRODUCTION : " UNION AND NO UNION " 17.
... tion between the Scottish and American experiences , however , my exclusive focus on Anglo - Scottish sympathy allows me to examine in more detail the development of " sympathetic Britishness " over INTRODUCTION : " UNION AND NO UNION " 17.
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... I ultimately invoke Jean - Luc Nancy's critique of the traditional concept of community to clarify what is at stake in Scott's reconfigura- tion of sympathetic discourse . For Nancy , the idea INTRODUCTION : " UNION AND NO UNION " 21.
... I ultimately invoke Jean - Luc Nancy's critique of the traditional concept of community to clarify what is at stake in Scott's reconfigura- tion of sympathetic discourse . For Nancy , the idea INTRODUCTION : " UNION AND NO UNION " 21.
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... tion of sympathetic discourse . For Nancy , the idea of a transcendent community is always only an ideal that is necessarily lost in the coming together of individuals whose differences neither can nor should ever be fully elided . As ...
... tion of sympathetic discourse . For Nancy , the idea of a transcendent community is always only an ideal that is necessarily lost in the coming together of individuals whose differences neither can nor should ever be fully elided . As ...
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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