TY - BOOK AU - McNeil,Kenneth TI - Scottish Romanticism and Collective Memory in the British Atlantic T2 - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSR SN - 9781474455466 AV - PR8549 .M36 2020eb U1 - 820.9/14509411 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Collective memory and literature KW - Atlantic Ocean Region KW - English literature KW - Scottish authors KW - History and criticism KW - Romanticism KW - Influence KW - Scotland KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: ‘So complete a change’ (in So Short a Time) – Scottish Romanticism, Modernity and Collective Memory --; Chapter 1. Aftermaths: Walter Scott and Imagining Collective Memory in the Transatlantic World --; Chapter 2. Memory on the Margins: Anne Grant’s Atlantic World --; Chapter 3. Indigenous Elsewhere: Lord Selkirk and Native Memory and Resettlement --; Chapter 4. Memory, Identity and the Scottish Remembrance of Slavery --; Chapter 5. John Galt and Circum-Atlantic Memory --; References --; Index; restricted access N2 - Charts the transatlantic movements of Scottish literature in the Age of RevolutionOffers an in-depth examination of Scottish Romantic literary ideas on memory and their influence among various cultures in the British Atlantic, broken down into distinct writing modes (memorials, travel memoir, slave narrative, colonial policy paper, emigrant fiction) and contexts (pre- and post-Revolution America, French-Canadian cultural nationalism, the slavery debate, immigration and colonial settlement)Looks at familiar Scottish writers (Walter Scott, John Galt) in new ways, while introducing less familiar ones (Anne Grant, Thomas Pringle)Brings Scottish Romantic literary studies into new engagements with other fields (such as transatlantic and memory studies)Opens up new dialogues between Scottish literature and culture and other literatures and cultures (for example, French-Canadian, Black Diaspora, Indigenous)Scots, who were at the vanguard of British colonial expansion in North America in the Romantic period, believed that their own nation had undergone an unprecedented transformation in only a short span of time. Scottish writers became preoccupied with collective memory, its powerful role in shaping group identity as well as its delicate fragility. McNeil reveals why we must add collective memory to the list of significant contributions Scots made to a culture of modernity UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474455480 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474455480 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474455480/original ER -