Gaelic Scotland in the colonial imagination : Anglophone writing from 1600 to 1900 /
Stroh, Silkeauthor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The modern nation-state and its others: civilizing missions at home and abroad, ca. 1600 to 1800 -- Anglophone literature of civilization and the hybridized Gaelic subject: Martin Martin's travel writings -- The reemergence of the primitive other? Noble savagery and the romantic age -- From flirtations with romantic otherness to a more integrated national synthesis: "Gentleman savages" in Walter Scott's novel Waverley -- Of Celts and Teutons: racial biology and anti-Gaelic discourse, ca. 1780-1860 -- Racist reversals: Appropriating racial typology in late-nineteenth-century pro-Gaelic discourse.
Scottish literature
Scottish literature
Celts in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
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