Scottish Romanticism and Collective Memory in the British Atlantic (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism)

McNeil, Kenneth

Edinburgh University Press（2022/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 384 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474455473
• DDC分類 820.914509411

Full Description

This book provides an in-depth examination of Scottish Romantic literary ideas on memory and their influence among various cultures in the British Atlantic, broken down into distinct writing modes such as memoirs, slave narratives and emigrant fiction, and contexts including pre- and post-Revolution America and French-Canadian cultural nationalism. Scots, who were at the vanguard of British colonial expansion in North America in the Romantic period, believed that their own nation had undergone an unprecedented transformation in only a short span of time. Scottish writers became preoccupied with collective memory, its powerful role in shaping group identity as well as its delicate fragility. McNeil reveals why we must add collective memory to the list of significant contributions Scots made to a culture of modernity.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Aftermaths: Walter Scott and Imagining Collective Memory in the Transatlantic World

2. Memory on the Margins: Anne Grant's Atlantic World

3. Indigenous Elsewhere: Lord Selkirk and Native Memory and Resettlement

4. Memory, Identity, and the Scottish Remembrance of Slavery

5. John Galt and Circum-Atlantic Memory

Index