Acts of union
Subtitle: Scotland and the literary negotiation of the British nation, 1707-1830
By: Leith Davis.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; National characteristics, British, in literature; Nationalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Nationalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature, Comparative -- English and Scottish; Literature, Comparative -- Scottish and English; Scotland -- History -- The Union, 1707 -- Historiography; Scotland -- In literature
Description: Acts of Union explores the political relationship between Scotland and England as it was negotiated in the literary realm in the century after the 1707 Act of Union. It examines Britain, one of the precursors to the modern nation, not as a homogeneous, stable unit, but as a dynamic process, a dialogue between heterogeneous elements.

Far from being constituted by a single Act of Union, the author contends, Britain was forged - in all the variant senses of that word - from multiple acts of union and dislocation over time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-212) and index.