Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English Writing, 1707-1832Bucknell University Press, 2007 - 274 pagina's 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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... never pleased me much . Letters are held in no honour : Scotsmen are hated : Superstition and Ignorance gain Ground daily . Edinburgh has many Objections and many Allure- ments . " 1 Hume represents his dilemma as a series of untenable ...
... never pleased me much . Letters are held in no honour : Scotsmen are hated : Superstition and Ignorance gain Ground daily . Edinburgh has many Objections and many Allure- ments . " 1 Hume represents his dilemma as a series of untenable ...
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... never inform us of what he suffers . They never did , and never can , carry us beyond our own person , and it is by the imagination only that we can form any concep- tion of what are his sensations . . . . It is the impressions of our ...
... never inform us of what he suffers . They never did , and never can , carry us beyond our own person , and it is by the imagination only that we can form any concep- tion of what are his sensations . . . . It is the impressions of our ...
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... never fully realized , Habermas is arguably suggesting that the public sphere never existed as anything more than a fantasy - or , to use my previous terminology , as a consensual and consensus - building fiction.76 Never- theless , as ...
... never fully realized , Habermas is arguably suggesting that the public sphere never existed as anything more than a fantasy - or , to use my previous terminology , as a consensual and consensus - building fiction.76 Never- theless , as ...
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
Sympathy National Identity | 22 |
Smollett and the Novelization | 61 |
Copyright | |
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