In a challenge to existing accounts of Romanticism, Murray Pittock provides abroad re-reading of British Romanticism. Locating Scottish and Irish Romanticwriting in the wider context of the British Isles, he explores the dialogue between national traditions through a detailed consideration of a range of Scottish, Irish, and English writers. INDICE: Preface; 1: The Lake Isle of Romanticism: The Challenge to Literary History; 2: Allan Ramsay and the Decolonization of Genre; 3: Romance, the Aeolian Harp and the Theft of History; 4: Strumming and Being Hanged: the Irish Bard and History Regained; 5: Robert Fergusson and his Scottish and Irish Contemporaries; 6: Robert Burns; 7: Maria Edgeworth's National Tale; 8: Scott and the European Nationalities Question; 9: Hogg, Maturin, and the Gothic NationalTale; 10: Fratriotism: Sisters, Brothers, Empire and its Limits in the Scottish and Irish Imagination, c.1746-1837; Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-19-969220-0
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés