Title Scotland, Britain, empire : writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 / Kenneth McNeil

Published Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2007] ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 228 pages) Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents "Native tongue": Ossian, national origins, and the problem of translation -- Roby Roy and the King's visit: modernity and the nation-as-tribe -- Britain's "Imperial man": Walter Scott, David Stewart, and Highland masculinity -- "Petticoated devils": Highland soldiers, martial races, and the Indian mutiny -- "Not absolutely a native nor entirely a strange": Anne Grant, Queen Victoria, and the Highland travelogue Summary "Scotland, Britain, Empire takes on a cliche that permeates writing from and about the literature of the Scottish Highlands. Popular and influential in its time, this literature fell into disrepute for circulating a distorted and deforming myth that aided in Scotland's marginalization by consigning Scottish culture into the past while drawing a mist over harsher realities." "Kenneth McNeil invokes recent work in postcolonial studies to show how British writers of the Romantic period were actually shaping a more complex national and imperial consciousness. He discusses canonical works - the works of James Macpherson and Sir Walter Scott - and noncanonical and nonliterary works - particularly in the fields of historiography, anthropology, and sociology. This book calls for a rethinking of the "romanticization" of the Highlands and shows that Scottish writing on the Highlands reflects the unique circumstances of a culture simultaneously feeling the weight of imperial "anglobalization" while playing a vital role in its inception."--Jacket Notes This work examines representation of the Scottish Highlands in the Romantic and early Victorian periods, the call for preserving the Scottish national identity while being part of the British union Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-221) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism Scottish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism National characteristics, Scottish, in literature. Ethnology in literature. Civilization, Celtic, in literature. Nationalism in literature. Imperialism in literature. Civilization, Celtic, in literature Civilization -- Historiography English literature -- Scottish authors Ethnology in literature Imperialism in literature International relations Literature National characteristics, Scottish, in literature Nationalism in literature Scottish literature Englische Literatur -- Motiv -- Schottland. Englische Literatur -- Motiv -- Imperialismus. Imperialismus -- Motiv -- Englische Literatur. Englische Literatur -- Schottland -- Romantik. Literatur -- Englisch -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Grossbritannien -- Highlands -- Geschichte -- 1760-1860. Literatur Nationalbewusstsein SUBJECT Highlands (Scotland) -- In literature Scotland -- Relations -- England Scotland -- Civilization -- Historiography Subject England Scotland Scotland -- Highlands England -- Schottland -- Geschichte 19. Jh. Schottland -- Motiv -- Englische Literatur. England -- Schottland -- Geschichte 18. Jh. Schottland -- England -- Geschichte 18. Jh. Schottland -- England -- Geschichte 19. Jh. Highlands -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Englisch -- Geschichte -- 1760-1860. Schottland -- Grossbritannien -- England -- Geschichte -- 1760-1860. England -- Grossbritannien -- Schottland -- Geschichte -- 1760-1860. Schottland <Motiv> Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2006026529 ISBN 9780814272305 0814272304

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