Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 331 pages)
ISBN:
9780810134041
,
0810134047
Series Statement:
Knowledge Unlatched Frontlist Collection 2016
Content:
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 in the aftermath of the 2014 referendum on independence and amid a continuing campaign for more autonomy. Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination offers an introduction to the emerging field of postcolonial Scottish studies, assessing both its potential and limitations to promote further interdisciplinary dialogue. Accessible to readers from various backgrounds, the book combines overviews of theoretical, social, and cultural contexts with detailed case studies of literary and nonliterary texts. Silke Stroh shows how the image of Scotland’s Gaelic margins changed under the influence of the emergence of the modern nation-state and the rise of overseas colonialism
Content:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Modern Nation-State and Its Others: Civilizing Missions at Home and Abroad, ca. 1600 to 1800 -- Chapter 2. Anglophone Literature of Civilization and the Hybridized Gaelic Subject: Martin Martin's Travel Writings -- Chapter 3. The Reemergence of the Primitive Other?: Noble Savagery and the Romantic Age -- Chapter 4. From Flirtations with Romantic Otherness to a More Integrated National Synthesis: "Gentleman Savages" in Walter Scott's Novel Waverley -- Chapter 5. Of Celts and Teutons: Racial Biology and Anti-Gaelic Discourse, ca. 1780-1860 -- Chapter 6. Racist Reversals: Appropriating Racial Typology in Late Nineteenth-Century Pro-Gaelic DiscourseConclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780810134034
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0810134039
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780810134058
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0810134055
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Stroh, Silke, 1974 - Gaelic Scotland in the colonial imagination Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017 ISBN 9780810134034
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780810134058
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Shelley, Mary 1797-1851 Frankenstein
;
Schottland
;
Postkoloniale Literatur
;
Literaturwissenschaft
;
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Schottlandbild
;
Geschichte 1600-1900
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URL:
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
Author information:
Stroh, Silke 1974-
