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The continuing churn of political advisers in Donald Trump's White
House serve as a reminder of the salience and relevance of
political advice. Political Advice: Past, Present and Future brings
several very different voices to bear on the problem of advice and
influence; the distinction in so far as it is valid between
political and policy advice; the two-way parasitism of adviser and
advised; the nature and idioms of political advice literature; the
changing (and sometimes unchanging) nature of expertise; the
ever-pressing issue of access and exclusion; and how that is
controlled. This volume of essays feeds into a contemporary
concern, set in a wider historical context. Moreover, the volume
treats political advice in an interdisciplinary fashion with
contributions from classics and literature as well as from history
and politics. The unique practitioners' perspective to the problem
of political advice is brought by the contributions of politicians,
political advisers and senior civil servants.
The World of Mr Casaubon takes as its point of departure a
fictional character - Mr Casaubon in George Eliot's classic novel,
Middlemarch. The author of an unfinished 'Key to All Mythologies',
Casaubon has become an icon of obscurantism, irrelevance and
futility. Crossing conventional disciplinary boundaries, Colin Kidd
excavates Casaubon's hinterland, and illuminates the fierce
ideological war which raged over the use of pagan myths to defend
Christianity from the existential threat posed by radical
Enlightenment criticism. Notwithstanding Eliot's portrayal of
Casaubon, Anglican mythographers were far from unworldly, and
actively rebutted the radical freethinking associated with the
Enlightenment and French Revolution. Orientalism was a major
theatre in this ideological conflict, and mythography also played
an indirect but influential role in framing the new science of
anthropology. The World of Mr Casaubon is rich in interdisciplinary
twists and ironies, and paints a vivid picture of the intellectual
world of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.
This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative
writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the
values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of
areas via specially commissioned essays by experts in each field,
the volume examines the reciprocal traffic between the
groundbreaking intellectual project of eighteenth-century Scotland
and the imaginative literature of the period, demonstrating that
the innovations made by the Scottish literati laid the foundations
for developments in imaginative writing in Scotland and further
afield. In doing so, it provide a context for the widespread
revaluation of the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment
and the part that culture played in the project of Enlightenment.
This book examines how the dramatic intellectual developments of
the Scottish Enlightenment undermined a patriotic reading of
Scotland's history, and shows how this had long-term consequences
in the failure of the nineteenth-century Scottish intelligentsia to
mount a nationalist movement comparable to the romantic
nationalisms of other European peoples. The volume sheds fresh
light on several important areas of Scottish history and
literature: on the parliamentary Union with England of 1707, the
ideological conflicts between whigs and Jacobites, and the literary
mythmaking of James Macpherson's Ossian and Sir Walter Scott's
Waverley novels. It also addresses the broader questions of the
impact of the Scottish Enlightenment on British political culture,
and the enigma of British national identity itself.
Although the dominant political ideology in Scotland between 1707
and the present, unionism has suffered serious neglect. One of the
most distinguished Scottish historians of our time looks afresh at
this central theme in Britain's history, politics and law, and
traces the history of Scottish unionist ideas from the early
sixteenth century to the present day. Colin Kidd demonstrates that
unionism had impeccably indigenous origins long predating the Union
of 1707, and that it emerged in reaction to the English vision of
Britain as an empire. Far from being the antithesis of nationalism,
modern Scottish unionism has largely occupied a middle ground
between the extremes of assimilation to England or separation from
it. At a time when the future of the Scottish union is under
scrutiny as never before, its history demands Colin Kidd's lucid
and cogent examination, which will doubtless generate major debate,
both within Scotland and beyond.
This book revolutionises our understanding of race. Building upon
the insight that races are products of culture rather than biology,
Colin Kidd demonstrates that the Bible - the key text in Western
culture - has left a vivid imprint on modern racial theories and
prejudices. Fixing his attention on the changing relationship
between race and theology in the Protestant Atlantic world between
1600 and 2000 Kidd shows that, while the Bible itself is
colour-blind, its interpreters have imported racial significance
into the scriptures. Kidd's study probes the theological anxieties
which lurked behind the confident facade of of white racial
supremacy in the age of empire and race slavery, as well as the
ways in which racialist ideas left their mark upon new forms of
religiosity. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the
histories of race or religion.
Inspired by debates among political scientists over the strength
and depth of the pre-modern roots of nationalism, this study
attempts to gauge the status of ethnic identities in an era whose
dominant loyalties and modes of political argument were
confessional, institutional and juridical. Colin Kidd's point of
departure is the widely shared orthodox belief that the whole world
had been peopled by the offspring of Noah. In addition, Kidd probes
inconsistencies in national myths of origin and ancient
constitutional claims, and considers points of contact which
existed in the early modern era between ethnic identities which are
now viewed as antithetical, including those of Celts and Saxons. He
also argues that Gothicism qualified the notorious Francophobia of
eighteenth-century Britons. A wide-ranging example of the new
British history, this study draws upon evidence from England,
Scotland, Ireland and America, while remaining alert to European
comparisons and influences.
John Galt (1779-1839) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott and
Jane Austen, and a friend and biographer of Lord Byron. Although a
prolific writer, and much admired in his own lifetime, Galt has
never achieved comparable levels of literary fame, and his works -
poised between Enlightenment and Romanticism - are now often
overlooked. Yet his reputation has been slowly growing, and he has
attracted critical interest as both a political novelist and a
chronicler of Scottish life. This INTERNATIONAL COMPANION builds on
a steady stream of recent scholarship, and examines Galt's writings
in the social, economic, and religious contexts of their time.
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.
Although the dominant political ideology in Scotland between 1707
and the present, unionism has suffered serious neglect. One of the
most distinguished Scottish historians of our time looks afresh at
this central theme in Britain's history, politics and law, and
traces the history of Scottish unionist ideas from the early
sixteenth century to the present day. Colin Kidd demonstrates that
unionism had impeccably indigenous origins long predating the Union
of 1707, and that it emerged in reaction to the English vision of
Britain as an empire. Far from being the antithesis of nationalism,
modern Scottish unionism has largely occupied a middle ground
between the extremes of assimilation to England or separation from
it. At a time when the future of the Scottish union is under
scrutiny as never before, its history demands Colin Kidd's lucid
and cogent examination, which will doubtless generate major debate,
both within Scotland and beyond.
Inspired by debates among political scientists over the strength
and depth of the pre-modern roots of nationalism, this study
attempts to gauge the status of ethnic identities in an era whose
dominant loyalties and modes of political argument were
confessional, institutional and juridical. Colin Kidd's point of
departure is the widely shared orthodox belief that the whole world
had been peopled by the offspring of Noah. In addition, Kidd probes
inconsistencies in national myths of origin and ancient
constitutional claims, and considers points of contact which
existed in the early modern era between ethnic identities which are
now viewed as antithetical, including those of Celts and Saxons. He
also argues that Gothicism qualified the notorious Francophobia of
eighteenth-century Britons. A wide-ranging example of the new
British history, this study draws upon evidence from England,
Scotland, Ireland and America, while remaining alert to European
comparisons and influences.
This book examines how the dramatic intellectual developments of the Scottish Enlightenment undermined a patriotic reading of Scotland’s history, and shows how this had long-term consequences in the failure of the nineteenth-century Scottish intelligentsia to mount a nationalist movement comparable to the romantic nationalisms of other European peoples. The volume sheds fresh light on several important areas of Scottish history and literature: on the parliamentary Union with England of 1707, the ideological conflicts between whigs and Jacobites, and the literary mythmaking of James Macpherson’s Ossian and Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley novels. It also addresses the broader questions of the impact of the Scottish Enlightenment on British political culture, and the enigma of British national identity itself.
This book revolutionises our understanding of race. Building upon
the insight that races are products of culture rather than biology,
Colin Kidd demonstrates that the Bible - the key text in Western
culture - has left a vivid imprint on modern racial theories and
prejudices. Fixing his attention on the changing relationship
between race and theology in the Protestant Atlantic world between
1600 and 2000 Kidd shows that, while the Bible itself is
colour-blind, its interpreters have imported racial significance
into the scriptures. Kidd's study probes the theological anxieties
which lurked behind the confident facade of of white racial
supremacy in the age of empire and race slavery, as well as the
ways in which racialist ideas left their mark upon new forms of
religiosity. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the
histories of race or religion.
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