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Visions of Britain, 1730-1830

Anglo-Scottish Writing and Representation

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Sebastian Mitchell

    1. University of Birmingham, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Sebastian Mitchell
    Pages 1-9

  3. Thomson’s Vision of Britannia

    • Sebastian Mitchell
    Pages 10-45

  4. Smollett and Dialectical Nationalism

    • Sebastian Mitchell
    Pages 46-83

  5. Ramsay, Hume and British Portraiture

    • Sebastian Mitchell
    Pages 84-121

  6. Ossian, Wolfe and the Death of Heroism

    • Sebastian Mitchell
    Pages 122-155

  7. Boswell: Self, Text, Nation

    • Sebastian Mitchell
    Pages 156-192

  8. Scott, Turner and the Vision of North Britain

    • Sebastian Mitchell
    Pages 193-232

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 233-291
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About this book

This is a revisionist study of the literary and visual representation of the nation in the century following the formation of the British state. It argues that the most engaging accounts of Great Britain subject their imagery to sustained artistic pressure, threatening to dismantle the national vision at the moment of its construction.

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Shortlisted for the Saltire Society's Research Book of the Year 2013

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  • University of Birmingham, UK

    Sebastian Mitchell

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Sebastian Mitchell is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK.

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