William Wallace / Graeme Morton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, Graeme, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wallace, William, Sir, -1305.

Wallace, William.

Heroes--Scotland--Biography.

Heroes.

Scotland--History--Wallace's Rising, 1297-1304.

Scotland.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

257 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Freed from the historian's bedrock of empiricism by a lack of corroborative sources, the biography of this short-lived late-medieval patriot has long been incorporated into the ideology of nationalism. It is to explain this assimilation - and to deconstruct the myriad ways in which Wallace's biography has been endlessly refreshed as a national narrative over many generations - that Graeme Morton embarks on this investigation. William Wallace: A National Tale examines the elision of Wallace's after-life into narrative ascendency, dominating the ideology and politics of nationalism in Scotland. This narrative is conceptualised as the national tale, a term taken out of its literary moorings to scrutinise how the personal biography of a medieval patriot has been evoked and presented as the nation's biography over seven centuries of time. Through the verse of Blind Harry, the romance of Jane Porter, to the historical imaginations of Braveheart and Brave, Scotland's national tale has been forged. This is a fresh, engaging and timely exploration into Wallace's hold over Scotland's national mythology. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Episodic Nationalism 1

2 A National Tale 21

3 Chronicles of Wallace 36

4 Hary's Tale 49

5 Fixing the Type 67

6 The Scottish Chiefs 87

7 A Distant Tale 110

8 The Feminised Nation 127

9 Tall Stories 140

10 The People's Tale 158

11 A Nationalist Tale 174

12 Moving Image 197.

Notes:

Originally published: Stroud: Sutton, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Ebook version

ISBN:

9780748685639

0748685634

OCLC:

880193999