Subverting Scotland's past, Scottish whig historians and the creation of an Anglo-British identity, 1689-c. 1830, Colin Kidd
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Subverting Scotland's past, Scottish whig historians and the creation of an Anglo-British identity, 1689-c. 1830, Colin Kidd
Language
eng
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Subverting Scotland's past
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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726825046
Responsibility statement
Colin Kidd
Series statement
Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
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Scottish whig historians and the creation of an Anglo-British identity, 1689-c. 1830
Summary
This book examines how the dramatic intellectual developments of the Scottish Enlightenment undermined a patriotic reading of Scotland's history, and shows how this had long-term consequences in the failure of the nineteenth-century Scottish intelligentsia to mount a nationalist movement comparable to the romantic nationalisms of other European peoples. The volume sheds fresh light on several important areas of Scottish history and literature: on the parliamentary Union with England of 1707, the ideological conflicts between whigs and Jacobites, and the literary mythmaking of James Macpherson's Ossian and Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels. It also addresses the broader questions of the impact of the Scottish Enlightenment on British political culture, and the enigma of British national identity itself.--, Provided by publisher
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