The Caledoniad

Name: The Caledoniad
Brand: Birlinn
SKU: 9780859767200
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Автор: MacDonald, Catriona M.M.

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Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: Birlinn

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Explores how Scottish history has been shaped by a narrow cultural elite, highlighting the role of a...

Информация за книгата

Автор

MacDonald, Catriona M.M.

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2024

страници

368

EAN

9780859767200

ISBN

0859767205

Enbook ID

46103723

Издател

Birlinn

Теглоt

1032

Пълно описание

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 Scotlands 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 historys 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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