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Scottish Romanticism and collective memory in the British Atlantic
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
- Summary
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This volume provides an in-depth examination of Scottish Romantic literary ideas on memory and their influence among various cultures in the British Atlantic.
Details
- Creator
- Kenneth McNeil
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (385 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9781474490962, 1474490964, 9781474455480, 1474455484, 1474455468
- OCLC
- on1312726323
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: ‘So complete a change’ (in So Short a Time) – Scottish Romanticism, Modernity and Collective Memory -- Chapter 1. Aftermaths: Walter Scott and Imagining Collective Memory in the Transatlantic World -- Chapter 2. Memory on the Margins: Anne Grant’s Atlantic World -- Chapter 3. Indigenous Elsewhere: Lord Selkirk and Native Memory and Resettlement -- Chapter 4. Memory, Identity and the Scottish Remembrance of Slavery -- Chapter 5. John Galt and Circum-Atlantic Memory -- References -- Index
Subjects
- English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism.
- Romanticism -- Scotland.
- Romanticism -- Influence.
- Collective memory and literature -- Atlantic Ocean Region.
- Scotland -- In literature.
- Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Grant, Anne MacVicar, 1755-1838 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, Earl of, 1771-1820.
- Galt, John, 1779-1839 -- Criticism and interpretation.