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Acts of Union - Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1830 (Hardcover)
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Acts of Union - Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1830 (Hardcover)
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"Acts of Union" explores the political relationship between
Scotland and England as it was negotiated in the literary realm in
the century after the 1707 Act of Union. It examines Britain, one
of the precursors to the modern nation, not as a homogeneous,
stable unit, but as a dynamic process, a dialogue between
heterogeneous elements. Far from being constituted by a single Act
of Union, the author contends, Britain was forged--in all the
variant senses of that word--from multiple acts of union and
dislocation over time.
Accordingly, each of the first five chapters focuses on a
discursive encounter between a Scottish and an English writer.
Chapter 1 examines the political debate between Daniel Defoe and
Lord Belhaven concerning the Act of Union. Chapter 2 considers how
Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding used the novel form to highlight
their concerns regarding the state of the nation after the 1745
rebellion. Chapter 3 analyzes the debate between James Macpherson
and Samuel Johnson over the poems of Ossian and the origins of
British culture, concluding with the crucial role played by James
Boswell as a political and cultural mediator. Chapter 4 reads
William Wordsworth's renegotiation of Robert Burns's work after the
Scottish poet's death as illustrative of the contest for control of
the British cultural realm at the end of the eighteenth century.
Chapter 5 argues that in his 1830 republication of "Minstrelsy of
the Scottish Border," Walter Scott imagines alternative histories
of Britain and of English literature through his negotiations with
Thomas Percy and his Scottish predecessors Macpherson and Burns.
The concluding chapter considers the use made of the representation
of Scottish national difference in the institutionalization of
English literature. As well as plotting out specific moments during
which writing served both to trouble and to renegotiate the Union
of Great Britain, the book considers the articulation of British
national identity within more general questions concerning
postcolonial theories of the nation, and also sets itself within
the current debate about the future of Scotland within Britain.
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