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Scotland and the fictions of geography, North Britain, 1760-1830, Penny Fielding

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Scotland and the fictions of geography, North Britain, 1760-1830, Penny Fielding

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eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Scotland and the fictions of geography

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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829712941

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Penny Fielding

Series statement

Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 78Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

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North Britain, 1760-1830

Summary

Focusing on the relationship between England and Scotland and the interaction between history and geography, Penny Fielding explores how Scottish literature in the Romantic period was shaped by the understanding of place and space. This book examines geography as a form of regional, national and global definition, addressing national surveys, local stories, place-names and travel writing, and argues that the case of Scotland complicates the identification of Romanticism with the local. Fielding considers Scotland as 'North Britain' in a period when the North of Europe was becoming a strong cultural and political identity, and explores ways in which Scotland was both formative and disruptive of British national consciousness. Containing studies of Robert Burns, Walter Scott and James Hogg, as well as the lesser-known figures of Anne Grant and Margaret Chalmers, this study discusses an exceptionally broad range of historical, geographical, scientific, linguistic, antiquarian and political writing from throughout North Britain.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

North Britain -- Burns, place and language -- Great north roads : the geometries of the nation -- Antiquarianism and the inscription of the nation -- Ultima Thule : the limits of the north -- Norths : James Hogg and post-enlightenment space

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