Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, 2, 2006, p.153
2006
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Scotland’s Literature of Empire and Emigration, 1707–1918
- Ist Teil von
- Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, 2, 2006, p.153
- Ort / Verlag
- United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2006
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Can one speak of a distinctScottishliterature of empire and emigration, and if so, what are its characteristic features? Only recently has a common disavowal of Scotland’s role in the British Empire been replaced by a more sanguine admission of the extent of involvement. This chapter will propose that for Scottish writers in the period 1707–1918, the literary representation of empire often assumed a distinctly complex and reflexive form. A brief introductory discussion of R. L. Stevenson’s 1889 novelThe Master of Ballantraewill serve as a portal. Stevenson’s narrative of the bitter conflict between the two brothers
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 0748624813, 9780748624812Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_ebookcentralchapters_448731_19_164
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Anthropology, Applied philosophy, Arts, Behavioral sciences, British literature, British studies, Colonial literature, Earth sciences, Emigration, Ethnic groups, Ethnography, Ethnology, Ethnoreligious groups, European studies, Fiction, Geography, Geomorphology, Highlands, Hindus, Human geography, Human migration, Literary genres, Literary history, Literary studies, Literature, Lyric poetry, Novels, Orientalism, Pacific studies, Philosophy, Philosophy of history, Physical sciences, Poetry, Polynesian studies, Social sciences, Topography