Literature and union : Scottish texts, British contexts / edited by Gerard Carruthers and Colin Kidd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carruthers, Gerard, editor.

Kidd, Colin, editor.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Scottish authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Scottish authors.

Scottish literature--History and criticism.

Scottish literature.

Politics in literature.

Scotland--In literature.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 430 pages): illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Union and the Ironies of Displacement in Scottish Literature / Colin Kidd Kidd, Colin 1

2 John Bull, Sister Peg, and Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Eighteenth Century / Alasdair Raffe Raffe, Alasdair 41

3 Bagpipes no Musick: Allan Ramsay, James Arbuckle, and the Significance of the 'Scots' Poetic Revival / Richard Holmes Holmes, Richard 61

4 James Thomson and 'Rule, Britannia' / Ralph McLean McLean, Ralph 79

5 Fictions, Libels, and Unions in the Long Eighteenth Century / Thomas Keymer Keymer, Thomas 97

6 Jacobite Unionism / Gerard Carruthers Carruthers, Gerard 123

7 Inclusion and Exclusion in the British State: Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and The Fortunes of Nigel / Alison Lumsden Lumsden, Alison 147

8 Union and Presbyterian Ulster Scots: William McComb, James McKnight, and The Repealer Repulsed / Andrew R. Holmes Holmes, Andrew R. 165

9 Between Nationhood and Nonconformity: The Scottish Whig-Presbyterian Novel and the Denominational Press / Valerie Wallace Wallace, Valerie, Colin Kidd Kidd, Colin 193

10 Contested Commemoration: Robert Burns, Urban Scotland and Scottish Nationality in the Nineteenth Century / Christopher A. Whatley Whatley, Christopher A. 221

11 Rogue Element: Charles Rogers and the Scotching of British History / Catriona M. M. Macdonald Macdonald, Catriona M. M. 243

12 Unspeakable Scots: Dialogues and Dialectics in Scottish-British Literary Culture before the First World War / David Goldie Goldie, David 259

13 Once and Future Kingdoms / Donald Mackenzie Mackenzie, Donald 279

14 A. G. MacDonell's England, their England / Brian Young Young, Brian 305

15 England's Scotland / Robert Crawford Crawford, Robert 331

16 Postscript: The Strange Death of Literary Unionism / Gerard Carruthers Carruthers, Gerard 349.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-401) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780191853722

0191853720

Publisher Number:

40027882174

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