Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745-1820

by Juliet Shields

Book Overview

What did it mean to be British, and more specifically to feel British, in the century following the parliamentary union of Scotland and England? Juliet Shields departs from recent accounts of the Romantic emergence of nationalism by recovering the terms in which eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers understood nationhood. She argues that in the wake of the turmoil surrounding the Union, Scottish writers appealed to sentiment, or refined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107449146
• ISBN13: 9781107449145
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"