Visions of Britain, 1730-1830: Anglo-Scottish Writing and Representation

by Sebastian Mitchell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349450398
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Edition description:	1st ed. 2013
Pages:	291
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sebastian Mitchell is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Shortlisted for the Saltire Society's Research Book of the Year 2013

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