Visions of Britain, 1730-1830 - Anglo-Scottish Writing and Representation

Zusatztext Shortlisted for the Saltire Society's Research Book of the Year 2013 Informationen zum Autor Sebastian Mitchell is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK. Klappentext This is a revisionist study of the literary and visual representation of the nation in the century following the formation of the British state. It argues that the most engaging accounts of Great Britain subject their imagery to sustained artistic pressure, threatening to dismantle the national vision at the moment of its construction. Zusammenfassung This is a revisionist study of the literary and visual representation of the nation in the century following the formation of the British state. It argues that the most engaging accounts of Great Britain subject their imagery to sustained artistic pressure, threatening to dismantle the national vision at the moment of its construction. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Thomson's Vision of Britannia 2. Smollett and Dialectical Nationalism 3. Ramsay, Hume, and British Portraiture 4. Ossian, Wolfe, and the Death of Heroism 5. Boswell: Self, Text, Nation 6. Scott, Turner, and the Vision of North Britain Bibliography Index

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Thomson's Vision of Britannia 2. Smollett and Dialectical Nationalism 3. Ramsay, Hume, and British Portraiture 4. Ossian, Wolfe, and the Death of Heroism 5. Boswell: Self, Text, Nation 6. Scott, Turner, and the Vision of North Britain Bibliography Index

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Shortlisted for the Saltire Society's Research Book of the Year 2013

Product details

• Authors: S. Mitchell, Sebastian Mitchell, Mitchell Sebastian
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2013
• EAN: 9781137290106
• ISBN: 978-1-137-29010-6
• No. of pages: 303
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; B, European History, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—18th century, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern