English hegemony/Scottish subjectivity
Subtitle: Calvinism and cultural resistance in the nineteenth-century 'North British' novel
By: by Caroline Evelyn Eleanor McCracken-Flesher.
Publisher: UMI Dissertation Services
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Calvinism in literature.
First sentence: Colonized peoples struggle for "permission to narrate," according to Edward Said. That is, they battle to tell their own tale, and thus to assert a reality distinct from that imposed by the intrusive power. In this dissertation, I trace the efforts of nineteenth-century Scotland's authors to retrieve and assert a specifically Scottish tale, one that will enable Scots to maintain their separate subjectivity while yet participating in England's alluring narrative of bourgeois economic mobility. The tale they retrieve is a vigorous narrative based on Calvinism. Across the dissertation, I focus on successive attempts by Scott, Hogg and Stevenson to precipitate nineteenth-century Scotland's pervasive Calvinist ideology into the national consciousness, and to make it function as a buttress against cultural colonization.
Description: Tracks the strategic use of Calvinism to establish Scottish difference in the nineteenth century. Looks particularly at Scott, Hogg, and Stevenson. Texts include: Old Mortality, The Heart of Midlothian, The Brownie of Bodsbeck, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, "Thrawn Janet," "The Merry Men," The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and The Master of Ballantrae.
Notes: Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-218).
Table of contents: pagenum: 1
label: Introduction
class: chapter
title: English hegemony/Scottish subjectivity + Calvin Redivivus + Calvinism and Cultural Resistance; pagenum: 40
title: Parenting the Scottish Subject: Walter Scott's Calvinist response to the problem of identity
class: part
label: 1; pagenum: 83
title: James Hogg: Calvinist figurations of class conflict
class: part
label: 2; pagenum: 136
title: Robert Louis Stevenson: Capital and the devalued Scottish subject
class: part
label: 3; pagenum: 190
class: part
label: Conclusion; pagenum: 194
class: part
label: Works Consulted