| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 248 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Ian Duncan, Leith Davis, Janet Sorensen -- Coleridge, Hume, and the chains of the romantic imagination / Cairns Craig -- The pathos of abstraction : Adam Smith, Ossian, and Samuel Johnson / Ian Duncan -- Antiquarianism, the Scottish science of man, and the emergence of modern disciplinarity / Susan Manning -- Melancholy, memory, and the "narrative situation" of history in post-enlightenment Scotland / Ina Ferris -- Scott, the Scottish enlightenment, and romantic Orientalism / James Watt -- Walter Scott's romantic postmodernity / Jerome McGann -- Putting down the rising / John Barrell -- Joanna Baillie stages the nation / Alyson Bardsley -- William Wordsworth and William Cobbett : Scotch travel and British reform / Peter J. Manning -- Burns's topographies / Penny Fielding -- At "sang about" : Scottish song and the challenge to British culture / Leith Davis -- Romantic spinstrelsy : Anne Bannerman and the sexual politics of the ballad / Adriana Craciun -- "The fause nourice sang" : childhood, child murder, and the formalism of the Scottish ballad revival / Ann Wierda Rowland |
| Summary |
This is the first book devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 - a key period comprising both the Scottish Enlightenment and Romanticism in British literary history. Essays by leading scholars from Scotland, England, Canada and the USA, address a range of major figures and topics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Romanticism -- Scotland
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Romanticism -- Scottish Borders (England and Scotland)
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Scottish literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Scottish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Scottish literature
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Intellectual life
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Literature
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Romanticism
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Letterkunde.
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Romantiek.
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| SUBJECT |
Scotland -- Literatures -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Scotland -- Literatures -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) -- Intellectual life
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Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) -- In literature
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Scottish Borders (Scotland) -- Intellectual life
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Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
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Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
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Scottish Borders (Scotland) -- In literature
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Scotland -- In literature
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Great Britain -- Scottish Borders
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Scotland
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Scotland -- Scottish Borders
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Davis, Leith, 1960-
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Duncan, Ian
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Sorensen, Janet
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| ISBN |
0511214782 |
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9780511214783 |
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0511216572 |
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9780511216572 |
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9780511484186 |
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0511484186 |
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0521832837 |
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9780521832830 |
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9780511212970 |
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0511212976 |
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