Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English Writing, 1707-1832Bucknell University Press, 2007 - 274 Seiten 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. |
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... fear and hatred as from sympathy : " Our attachment to one division , or to one sect , seems often to derive much of its force from an animosity conceived to an opposite one " ( 16 ) . As such , Ferguson warns , " it is vain to expect ...
... fear and hatred as from sympathy : " Our attachment to one division , or to one sect , seems often to derive much of its force from an animosity conceived to an opposite one " ( 16 ) . As such , Ferguson warns , " it is vain to expect ...
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... fears , " are dispersed at last upon a Sylvan wilderness . . . and that the whole effect of their undertaking is only more fatigue and equal scarcity " ( 87 ) . Equally important for Johnson , however , is a more interested motivation ...
... fears , " are dispersed at last upon a Sylvan wilderness . . . and that the whole effect of their undertaking is only more fatigue and equal scarcity " ( 87 ) . Equally important for Johnson , however , is a more interested motivation ...
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... fear from a resurgence of actual Jacobit- ism . Although Boswell ( like Scott after him ) was attracted to Jacobit- ism as a lost cause , he was far too pragmatic to treat it as a serious political program.80 Indeed , in a pamphlet ...
... fear from a resurgence of actual Jacobit- ism . Although Boswell ( like Scott after him ) was attracted to Jacobit- ism as a lost cause , he was far too pragmatic to treat it as a serious political program.80 Indeed , in a pamphlet ...
Inhalt
Acknowledgments | 7 |
Sympathy National Identity | 22 |
Smollett and the Novelization | 61 |
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