Scotland and the First World War : myth, memory, and the legacy of Bannockburn / edited by Gill Plain.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Plain, Gill, editor.

Series:

Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.)

Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Scotland.

World War, 1914-1918.

Bannockburn, Battle of, Scotland, 1314--Anniversaries, etc.

Bannockburn, Battle of, Scotland, 1314.

Bannockburn, Battle of, Scotland, 1314--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Scotland and the First World War : Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation, belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland's encounter with the First World War. In a series of thematically linked essays, experts from the fields of literature, history and cultural studies examine how Scotland remembers war, and how remembering war has shaped Scotland"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Anniversary culture and the legacy of Bannockburn / Gill Plain

Part I. Anniversary culture

Missing dates and magic numbers : reflections on 1914 / Fran Brearton

Bruce, Wallace and the diminished present, 1800-1964 / Graeme Morton

Part II. Making the myths of war and nation

"Men brave and strong" : Bannockburn, the Auld Alliance and Scottish martial identity in the late Middle Ages / Michael Brown

"Not my land's hills" : war and the problem of Scottish homecoming / Caroline McCracken-Flesher

Medieval battlefields and national narratives, 1830-1918 / Carol Symes

Bannockburn after Baston / Robert Crawford

Part III. Making the memory of the First World War

"The spirit of the crusaders" : Scottish peculiarities, British commonalities and European convergences in the memorialisation of the Great War / Stefan Goebel

Buchan, Bannockburn and beyond : popular histories of Scotland's martial past / Catriona M.M. Macdonald

Women, war and internationalism : notes towards a counter-history / Margaret R. Higonnet

Freedom from judgement above? : predestination and cultural trauma in Scottish Gaelic poetry of World War I / Peter Mackay

Shades of Bruce : independence and union in First-World War Scottish literature / David Goldie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61148-778-1