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Feeling British
Evan Gottlieb
其他書名
Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English Writing, 1707-1832
出版Bucknell University Press, 2007
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Culture, Race & EthnicitySocial Science / Ethnic Studies / GeneralSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / European Studies
ISBN08387567869780838756782
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7cbI17tKIPwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Feeling British argues that the discourse of sympathy both encourages and problematizes a sense of shared national identity in eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature and culture. Although the 1707 Act of Union officially joined England and Scotland, government policy alone could not overcome centuries of feuding and ill will between these nations. Accordingly, the literary public sphere became a vital arena for the development and promotion of a new national identity, Britishness. Feeling British starts by examining the political implications of the Scottish Enlightenment's theorizations of sympathy the mechanism by which emotions are shared between people. From these philosophical beginnings, this study tracks how sympathetic discourse is deployed by a variety of authors - including Defoe, Smollett, Johnson, Wordsworth, and Scott - invested in constructing, but also in questioning, an inclusive sense of what it means to be British.