Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Commemoration, Nationality and Memory

Exposes ever-changing attitudes to Scotland's national heroes, from Wallace the unionist paragon to Knox the national hero At a time when the Union between Scotland and England is once again under the spotlight, Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland examines the way in which Scotl...

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1. Verfasser: Coleman, James (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
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Zusammenfassung:Exposes ever-changing attitudes to Scotland's national heroes, from Wallace the unionist paragon to Knox the national hero At a time when the Union between Scotland and England is once again under the spotlight, Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland examines the way in which Scotland's national heroes were once remembered as champions of both Scottish and British patriotism. Whereas 19th-century Scotland is popularly depicted as a mire of sentimental Jacobitism and kow-towing unionism, this book shows how Scotland's national heroes were once the embodiment of a consistent, expressive and robust view of Scottish nationality.Whether celebrating the legacy of William Wallace and Robert Bruce, the reformer John Knox, the Covenanters, 19th-century Scots rooted their national heroes in a Presbyterian and unionist view of Scotland's past.Examined through the prism of commemoration, this book uncovers collective memories of Scotland's past entirely opposed to 21st-century assumptions of medieval proto-nationalism and Calvinist misery.Key FeaturesDetailed studies of 19th-century commemoration of Scotland's national heroesUncovers an all but forgotten interpretation of these 'great Scots' Shines a new light on the mindset of nineteenth-century Scottish national identity as being comfortably Scottish and BritishOverturns the prevailing view of Victorian Scottishness as parochial, sentimental tartanry
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
ISBN:9780748676910

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