This is a revisionist study of the literary and visual representation of the nation in the century following the formation of the British state. It argues that the most engaging accounts of Great Britain subject their imagery to sustained artistic pressure, threatening to dismantle the national vision at the moment of its construction.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Thomson’s Vision of Britannia 2. Smollett and Dialectical Nationalism 3. Ramsay, Hume, and British Portraiture 4. Ossian, Wolfe, and the Death of Heroism 5. Boswell: Self, Text, Nation 6. Scott, Turner, and the Vision of North Britain Bibliography Index
Über den Autor
Sebastian Mitchell is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK.
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Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 291 ● ISBN 9781137290113 ● Dateigröße 2.5 MB ● Verlag Palgrave Macmillan UK ● Ort London ● Land GB ● Erscheinungsjahr 2013 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 2712723 ● Kopierschutz Soziales DRM
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