ISBN details
- ISBN 10: 0198736231
- ISBN 13: 9780198736233
Overview
Literature and Union opens up a new front in interdisciplinary literary studies. There has been a great deal of academic work - both in the Scottish context and more broadly - on the relationship between literature and nationhood, yet almost none on the relationship between literature andunions. This volume introduces the insights of the new British history into mainstream Scottish literary scholarship. The contributors, who are from all shades of the political spectrum, will interrogate from various angles the assumption of a binary opposition between organic Scottish values andthose supposedly imposed by an overbearing imperial England. Viewing Scottish literature as a clash between Scottish and English identities loses sight of the internal Scottish political and religious divisions, which, far more than issues of nationhood and union, were the primary sources ofconflict in Scottish culture for most of the period of Union, until at least the early twentieth century.The aim of the volume is to reconstruct the story of Scottish literature along lines which are more historically persuasive than those of the prevailing grand narratives in the field. The chapters fall into three groups: (1) those which highlight canonical moments in Scottish literary Unionism -John Bull, "Rule, Britannia", Humphry Clinker, Ivanhoe and England, their England; (2) those which investigate key themes and problems, including the Unions of 1603 and 1707, Scottish Augustanism, the Burns Cult, Whig-Presbyterian and sentimental Jacobite literatures; and (3) comparative pieces onEuropean and Anglo-Irish phenomena.Other Details
- Publisher: Oxford University Press,
- Language: Eng English
- Format: print
- Dimensions: xii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Pages: 336
- Date Published: 2018