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Literature and Union opens up a new front in interdisciplinary literary studies. There has been a great deal of academic work--both in the Scottish context and more broadly--on the relationship between literature and nationhood, yet almost none on the relationship between literature and unions. This volume introduces the insights of the new British history into mainstream Scottish literary scholarship. The contributors, who are from all shades of the political spectrum, will interrogate from various angles the assumption of a binary opposition between organic Scottish values and those supposedly imposed by an overbearing imperial England. Viewing Scottish literature as a clash between Scottish and English identities loses sight of the internal Scottish political and religious divisions, which, far more than issues of nationhood and union, were the primary sources of conflict in Scottish culture for most of the period of Union, until at least the early twentieth century.
The aim of the volume is to reconstruct the story of Scottish literature along lines which are more historically persuasive than those of the prevailing grand narratives in the field. The chapters fall into three groups: (1) those which highlight canonical moments in Scottish literary Unionism--John Bull, 'Rule, Britannia', Humphry Clinker, Ivanhoe and England, their England; (2) those which investigate key themes and problems, including the Unions of 1603 and 1707, Scottish Augustanism, the Burns Cult, Whig-Presbyterian and sentimental Jacobite literatures; and (3) comparative pieces on European and Anglo-Irish phenomena.
Contents
1: Colin Kidd: Union and the Ironies of Displacement in Scottish Literature
2: Alasdair Raffe: John Bull, Sister Peg and Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Eighteenth Century
3: Richard Holmes: 'Bagpipes no Musick': Allan Ramsay, James Arbuckle and the significance of the 'Scots' poetic revival
4: Ralph Mclean: James Thomson and 'Rule, Britannia'
5: Thomas Keymer: Fictions, Libels and Unions in the long Eighteenth Century
6: Gerard Carruthers: Jacobite Unionism
7: Alison Lumsden: Inclusion and Exclusion in the British State: Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and The Fortunes of Nigel
8: Andrew R. Holmes: Union and Presbyterian Ulster Scots: William McComb, James McKnight, and The Repealer Repulsed
9: Valerie Wallace and Colin Kidd: Between Nationhood and Nonconformity: the Scottish Whig-Presbyterian Novel and the Denominational Press
10: Christopher Whatley: Contested commemoration: Robert Burns, urban Scotland and Scottish nationality in the nineteenth century
11: Catriona Macdonald: Rogue Element: Charles Rogers and the Scotching of British History
12: David Goldie: Unspeakable Scots: dialogues and dialectics in Scottish / British literary culture before the First World War
13: Donald Mackenzie: Once and Future Kingdoms
14: Brian Young: A.G. MacDonell's England, their England
15: Robert Crawford: England's Scotland
16: Gerard Carruthers: Postscript: The Death of Literary Unionism
