Sentimental literature and Anglo-Scottish identity, 1745-1820

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Label

Sentimental literature and Anglo-Scottish identity, 1745-1820

Statement of responsibility

Juliet Shields

Creator

• Shields, Juliet, 1976-

Subject

• English literature -- Scottish authors | History and criticism
• History
• National characteristics, British, in literature
• National characteristics, Scottish, in literature
• Nationalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
• Nationalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Scottish literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• Scottish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Sympathy in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"What did it mean to be British, and more specifically to feel British, in the century following the parliamentary union of Scotland and England? Juliet Shields departs from recent accounts of the Romantic emergence of nationalism by recovering the terms in which eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers understood nationhood. She argues that in the wake of the turmoil surrounding the Union, Scottish writers appealed to sentiment, or refined feeling, to imagine the nation as a community. They sought to transform a Great Britain united by political and economic interests into one united by shared sympathies, even while they used the gendered and racial connotations of sentiment to differentiate sharply between Scottish, English, and British identities. By moving Scotland from the margins to the center of literary history, the book explores how sentiment shaped both the development of British identity and the literature within which writers responded creatively to the idea of nationhood"--

Member of

• Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 86

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

820.9/9411

Index

index present

LC call number

PR8522.N24

LC item number

S55 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in Romanticism

Series volume

86