Feeling British : sympathy and national identity in Scottish and English writing, 1707-1832 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gottlieb, Evan, 1975-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press, [2007]
Series:	Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture.
Subjects:	English literature > Scottish authors > History and criticism. Scottish literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. National characteristics, Scottish, in literature. Scotland > Relations > England. England > Relations > Scotland. Nationalism in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: "Union and no Union": feeling British in the long eighteenth century
"That propensity we have": sympathy, national identity, and the Scottish Enlightenment
"Fools of prejudice": Smollett and the novelization of national identity
"We are now one people": Boswell, Johnson, and the renegotiation of Anglo-Scottish relations
"Harp of the north": romantic poetry and the sympathetic uses of Scotland
"To be at once another and the same": Scott's Waverley novels and the end(s) of sympathetic Britishness
Conclusion: "Imperfect sympathies" and the devolution of Britishness.