The hero building : an architecture of Scottish national identity / Johnny Rodger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodger, John, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heroes--Monuments--Scotland.

Heroes.

Nationalism and architecture--Scotland.

Nationalism and architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why was it that, across Scotland over the last two and a half centuries, architectural monuments were raised to national heroes? Were hero buildings commissioned as manifestations of certain social beliefs, or as a built environmental form of social advocacy? And if so, then how and why were social aims and intentions translated into architectural form, and how effective were they? A tradition of building architectural monuments to commemorate national heroes developed as a distinctive feature of the Scottish built environment. As concrete manifestations of powerful social and political cur

Contents:

The Hero Building

Prototype : Hume and Glenfinnan Monuments

Romantic Poet - Enlightenment Poet : Early Burns Monuments

Athens of the North/Valhalla of the West : Calton Hill in Edinburgh

Wizard of the North : The Scott Monument

Baronial Revival and the National Wallace Monument

National Poet - Poet of Humanity : Late Burns Monuments

Aberration, Autism and Vanity : Hamilton Mausoleum and the McCaig Tower

The Fallen : The Scottish National War Memorial

A Post Modern Proof : Glasgow Developments

Afterlife.

Notes:

"First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-55727-4

1-317-02913-5

1-4724-5272-0

9781315557274

OCLC:

910448118