SCOTLAND BRITAIN EMPIRE

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"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.

subjects: English literature,  Scottish authors,  History and criticism,  Scottish literature,  National characteristics, Scottish, in literature,  Ethnology in literature,  Civilization, Celtic, in literature,  Nationalism in literature,  Imperialism in literature,  In literature,  Relations,  Civilization,  Historiography,  English literature, history and criticism, 19th century,  National characteristics in literature,  Scotland, in literature