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Scottish and Irish Romanticism

Scottish and Irish Romanticism is the first single-author book to address the main non-English Romanticisms of the British Isles. Murray Pittock begins by questioning the terms of his chosen title as he searches for a definition of Romanticism and for the meaning of 'national literature'. He proposes certain determining 'triggers' for the recognition of the presence of a national literature, and also deals with two major problems which are holding back the development of anew and broader understanding of British Isles Romanticisms: the survival of outdated assumptions in ostensibly more modern
eBook, English, 2008
OUP Oxford, Oxford, 2008
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (305 pages)
9780191528385, 9780191716409, 9780199232796, 0191528382, 0191716405, 0199232792
781372007
1. The Lake Isle of Romanticism: The Challenge to Literary History; 2. Allan Ramsay and the Decolonization of Genre; 3. Romance, the Aeolian Harp, and the Theft of History; 4. Strumming and Being Hanged: The Irish Bard and History Regained; 5. Robert Fergusson and his Scottish and Irish Contemporaries; 6. Robert Burns; 7. Maria Edgeworth: Language, Culture, and the Irish Sphere; 8. Scott and the European Nationalities Question; 9. Hogg, Maturin, and the Gothic National Tale; 10. Fratriotism: Sisters, Brothers, Empire, and its Limits in the Scottish and Irish Imagination, c.1746-1837. BibliographyIndex
Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo., NetLibrary, 2008, Available via World Wide Web, Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries