Kniha The Caledoniad MacDonald

The Caledoniad

Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Pevná
Vydavateľ: Birlinn
Dostupnosť: Skladom u dodávateľa v malom množstve
Odosielame za 11-15 dní
109.02
Explores how Scottish history has been shaped by a narrow cultural elite, highlighting the role of a...

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Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydalo
2024
Stránok
368
EAN
9780859767200
ISBN
0859767205
Enbook ID
46103723
Vydavateľ
Hmotnosť
1032

Kompletný popis

Explores how Scottish history has been shaped by a narrow cultural elite, highlighting the role of authors in shaping national identity.

Why did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who controlled their history? Is the historical narrative the only legitimate medium through which the past can be made known? Are novelists and historians as far apart as convention has it? In an age when history grounds any claims to national status, these are important questions and they have implications for how Scottish history has evolved, and how Scottish identity has been understood up to the present day.

Scottish history is not simply the distillation of Scotland’s past: authors shape what we know and how we judge our forebears. This book investigates who decided which Scottish voices of the past would be heard in history’s pages and which would ultimately be silenced. It sketches a picture of a narrow and privileged cultural elite that responded belatedly to a more democratic age and only slowly embraced women writers and the interests of ‘average’ Scots. Integrating historical fiction and popular histories in its appreciation of the Scottish historical imaginary, it most importantly tells the story of why, despite the interests of politicians and others, a truly British history has never emerged.

''A brilliant, scholarly yet highly readable work which enlarges our understanding of what Scottish history is, and reinforces why it really matters'' - James Robertson

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