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  • Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

    The Romance of Everyday Life

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    Walter Scott's tales of chivalry and adventure inaugurated a masculinized Scottish romance tradition that celebrated a sublime and heroic version of Scotland. Nineteenth-century Scotswomen responded to Scott's influence by establishing a counter-tradition of unromantic or even anti-romantic representations of Scotland. Their novels challenged the long-standing claim that Scotland lacked any ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Mary Prince, Slavery, and Print Culture in the Anglophone Atlantic World

    Series series Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
    This study examines a network of writers that coalesced around the publication of The History of Mary Prince (1831), which recounts Prince's experiences as an enslaved person in the West Indies and the events that brought her to seek assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society in London. It focuses on the three writers who produced the text - Mary Prince, Thomas Pringle, and Susanna Moodie - with ... Read more

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  • Nation and Migration

    The Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765-1835

    Nation and Migration explores the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture, moving beyond traditional studies of transatlantic literature that focus on what Stephen Spender has described as the "love-hate relations" between the United States and England. By allowing England to stand in for the British archipelago, ... Read more

    $91.79 USD

  • Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745–1820

    Series Book 86 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    What did it mean to be British, and more specifically to feel British, in the century following the parliamentary union of Scotland and England? Juliet Shields departs from recent accounts of the Romantic emergence of nationalism by recovering the terms in which eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers understood nationhood. She argues that in the wake of the turmoil surrounding the Union, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Clan-Albin: A National Tale

    by Christian Isobel Johnstone

    Edited by Juliet Shields ...
    Series series Chawton House Library: Women's Novels
    Christian Isobel Johnstone’s Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815, less than a year after Walter Scott’s Waverley; or ‘tis Sixty Years Since enthralled readers and initiated a craze for Scottish novels. Both as a novelist and as editor of Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine from 1834 to 1846, Johnstone was a powerful figure in Romantic Edinburgh’s literary scene. But her works and her ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • Clan-Albin: A National Tale

    by Christian Isobel Johnstone

    Edited by Juliet Shields ...
    Series series Chawton House Library: Women's Novels
    Christian Isobel Johnstone’s Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815, less than a year after Walter Scott’s Waverley; or ‘tis Sixty Years Since enthralled readers and initiated a craze for Scottish novels. Both as a novelist and as editor of Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine from 1834 to 1846, Johnstone was a powerful figure in Romantic Edinburgh’s literary scene. But her works and her ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830

    From Local to Global

    by Evan Gottlieb ...
    Revising traditional 'rise of the nation-state' narratives, this collection explores the development of and interactions among various forms of local, national, and transnational identities and affiliations during the long eighteenth century. By treating place as historically contingent and socially constructed, this volume examines how Britons experienced and related to a landscape altered by ... Read more

    $73.99 USD