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Oxford Literature and Union Scottish Texts British Contexts 2018 Edition by Gerard Carruthers, Colin Kidd
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_x000D_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_x000D_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._x000D_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_x000D_Burns Cult, Whig-Presbyterian and sentimental Jacobite literatures; and (3) comparative pieces on European and Anglo-Irish phenomena._x000D_ Table of Contents :- _x000D_
1: Colin Kidd: Union and the Ironies of Displacement in Scottish Literature_x000D_
2: Alasdair Raffe: John Bull, Sister Peg and Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Eighteenth Century_x000D_
3: Richard Holmes: 'Bagpipes no Musick': Allan Ramsay, James Arbuckle and the significance of the 'Scots' poetic revival_x000D_
4: Ralph Mclean: James Thomson and 'Rule, Britannia'_x000D_
5: Thomas Keymer: Fictions, Libels and Unions in the long Eighteenth Century_x000D_
6: Gerard Carruthers: Jacobite Unionism_x000D_
7: Alison Lumsden: Inclusion and Exclusion in the British State: Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and The Fortunes of Nigel_x000D_
8: Andrew R. Holmes: Union and Presbyterian Ulster Scots: William McComb, James McKnight, and The Repealer Repulsed_x000D_
9: Valerie Wallace and Colin Kidd: Between Nationhood and Nonconformity: the Scottish Whig-Presbyterian Novel and the Denominational Press_x000D_
10: Christopher Whatley: Contested commemoration: Robert Burns, urban Scotland and Scottish nationality in the nineteenth century_x000D_
11: Catriona Macdonald: Rogue Element: Charles Rogers and the Scotching of British History_x000D_
12: David Goldie: Unspeakable Scots: dialogues and dialectics in Scottish / British literary culture before the First World War_x000D_
13: Donald Mackenzie: Once and Future Kingdoms_x000D_
14: Brian Young: A.G. MacDonell's England, their England_x000D_
15: Robert Crawford: England's Scotland_x000D_
16: Gerard Carruthers: Postscript: The Death of Literary Unionism_x000D_