Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900
Can Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such comparisons no more than victimology to mask Scottish complicity in the British Empire and justify nationalism? These questions have been heatedly debated...
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Evanston, Illinois
Northwestern University Press
2016
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422292006719 |
Table of Contents:
- The modern nation-state and its others: civilizing missions at home and abroad, ca. 1600 to 1800
- Anglophone literature of civilization and the hybridized Gaelic subject: Martin Martin's travel writings
- The reemergence of the primitive other? Noble savagery and the romantic age
- From flirtations with romantic otherness to a more integrated national synthesis: "Gentleman savages" in Walter Scott's novel Waverley
- Of Celts and Teutons: racial biology and anti-Gaelic discourse, ca. 1780-1860
- Racist reversals: Appropriating racial typology in late-nineteenth-century pro-Gaelic discourse.
