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.
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