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Literature and Union - Scottish Texts, British Contexts (Hardcover)
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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 and unions. 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
and those 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 of conflict 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 on European and Anglo-Irish phenomena.
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