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Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century

Sarah Sharp

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Description:Examines Scottish Romantic writers’ shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national deadDescribes the role played by death and the grave in Scottish Romantic cultural nationalism.Explores engagement of authors including James Hogg, John Galt and John Wilson with contemporary debates around anatomy, contagion, psychology and migration, providing new contexts for canonical Scottish Romantic texts'.Considers how kirkyard Romanticism helped to shape understandings of national identity both at home and abroad.The early nineteenth century saw the dead take on new life in Scottish literature; sometimes quite literally. This book brings together a range of Scottish Romantic texts, identifying a shared interest an imagined national dead. It argues that the publications of Edinburgh-based publisher William Blackwood were the crucible for this new form of Scottish cultural nationalism. Scottish Romantic authors including James Hogg, John Wilson and John Galt, use the Romantic kirkyard to engage with, and often challenge, contemporary ideas of modernity. The book also explores the extensive ripples that this cultural moment generated across Scottish, British and wider Anglophone literary sphere over the next century.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century. To get started finding Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Examines Scottish Romantic writers’ shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national deadDescribes the role played by death and the grave in Scottish Romantic cultural nationalism.Explores engagement of authors including James Hogg, John Galt and John Wilson with contemporary debates around anatomy, contagion, psychology and migration, providing new contexts for canonical Scottish Romantic texts'.Considers how kirkyard Romanticism helped to shape understandings of national identity both at home and abroad.The early nineteenth century saw the dead take on new life in Scottish literature; sometimes quite literally. This book brings together a range of Scottish Romantic texts, identifying a shared interest an imagined national dead. It argues that the publications of Edinburgh-based publisher William Blackwood were the crucible for this new form of Scottish cultural nationalism. Scottish Romantic authors including James Hogg, John Wilson and John Galt, use the Romantic kirkyard to engage with, and often challenge, contemporary ideas of modernity. The book also explores the extensive ripples that this cultural moment generated across Scottish, British and wider Anglophone literary sphere over the next century.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century. To get started finding Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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