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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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
O autorze
Sebastian Mitchell is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK.
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Język Angielski ● Format PDF ● Strony 291 ● ISBN 9781137290113 ● Rozmiar pliku 2.5 MB ● Wydawca Palgrave Macmillan UK ● Miasto London ● Kraj GB ● Opublikowany 2013 ● Do pobrania 24 miesięcy ● Waluta EUR ● ID 2712723 ● Ochrona przed kopiowaniem Społeczny DRM
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