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Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English Writing,
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Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English Writing, 1707-1832 Hardcover - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Evan Gottlieb

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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. Although the 1707 Act of Union officially joined England and Scotland, government policy alone could not overcome centuries of feuding and ill will between these nations. Accordingly, the literary public sphere became a vital arena for the development and promotion of a new national identity, Britishness. 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.

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  • Title Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English Writing, 1707-1832
  • Author Evan Gottlieb
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 274
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bucknell University Press
  • Date May 30, 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780838756782 / 0838756786
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.9 in (23.37 x 16.26 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Nationalism in literature, Identity (Philosophical concept) in
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006035155
  • Dewey Decimal Code 820.994

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