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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Table of Content
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
About the author
Sebastian Mitchell is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK.
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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 291 ● ISBN 9781137290113 ● File size 2.5 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2712723 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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