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Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination

Stroh, Silke,

Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900 / [electronic resource] : Silke Stroh. - Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

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Postcolonialism in literature.
Celts in literature.
Scottish literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Scottish literature--History and criticism.--18th century


Electronic books.

PR8547 / .S77 2016

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