Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-285) and index.
The lake isle of Romanticism: the challenge to literary history -- Allan Ramsay and the decolonization of genre -- Romance, the Aeolian harp and the theft of history -- Strumming and being hanged: the Irish bard and history regained -- Robert Fergusson and his Scottish and Irish contemporaries -- Robert Burns -- Maria Edgeworth: language, culture, and the Irish sphere -- Scott and the European nationalities question -- Hogg, Maturin, and the Gothic national tale -- Fratriotism: sisters, brothers, empire, and its limits in the Scottish and Irish imagination, c.1746-1837.
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Scottish and Irish Romanticism is the first single-author book to address the main non-English Romanticisms of the British Isles. Murray Pittock begins by questioning the terms of his chosen title as he searches for a definition of Romanticism and for the meaning of 'national literature'. He proposes certain determining 'triggers' for the recognition of the presence of a national literature, and also deals with two major problems which are holding back the development of anew and broader understanding of British Isles Romanticisms: the survival of outdated assumptions in ostensibly more modern.
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Scottish and Irish romanticism.
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English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
English literature-- Irish authors-- History and criticism.
English literature-- Scottish authors-- History and criticism.