The Protean Scot: The Crisis of Identity in Eighteenth Century Scottish Literature |
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... Union were beginning to catalyse a crisis of identity among Scots . George Davie has identified as follows the problems of accommodating European Enlightenment thought within the new status of junior partnership in the Union : the ...
... Union were beginning to catalyse a crisis of identity among Scots . George Davie has identified as follows the problems of accommodating European Enlightenment thought within the new status of junior partnership in the Union : the ...
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... Union crisis of identity expressed itself in another , quite distinct , manner : the rationalist and realistic sense ... Union of the Crowns , accelerated by the Authorised Version , and finalised in the after - effects of the Union of ...
... Union crisis of identity expressed itself in another , quite distinct , manner : the rationalist and realistic sense ... Union of the Crowns , accelerated by the Authorised Version , and finalised in the after - effects of the Union of ...
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... Union in artistic terms . For them , the development of polite literature was both essential for , and an index to , the refinement of society . To Hume's eyes , the Union had brought at last to Scotland that stability upon which such ...
... Union in artistic terms . For them , the development of polite literature was both essential for , and an index to , the refinement of society . To Hume's eyes , the Union had brought at last to Scotland that stability upon which such ...
Contents
Tobias Smollett | 14 |
The Poetry of James | 41 |
the Literati and Scottish | 70 |
Copyright | |
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