Feeling British
Subtitle: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English Writing, 1707-1832 (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: May 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780838756782
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary studies: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; England; Scotland; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; European - General; 19th century; English literature; History and criticism; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; Scottish authors
Description: "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. 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." --Book Jacket.