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Gaelic Scotland in the colonial imagination Anglophone writing from 1600 to 1900

Title
Gaelic Scotland in the colonial imagination [electronic resource] : Anglophone writing from 1600 to 1900 / Silke Stroh.
Author
Stroh, Silke.
Publication
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.

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1 online resource (pages cm)
Uniform Title
Gaelic Scotland in the colonial imagination (Online)
Alternative Title
Gaelic Scotland in the colonial imagination (Online)
Subject
  • Scottish literature > 18th century > History and criticism
  • Scottish literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Celts in literature
  • Postcolonialism in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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.
LCCN
2016032000
OCLC
ssj0001733388
Author
Stroh, Silke.
Title
Gaelic Scotland in the colonial imagination [electronic resource] : Anglophone writing from 1600 to 1900 / Silke Stroh.
Imprint
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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