Author: Sir Thomas Dick Lauder
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Correspondence Between Sir Thomas Dick Lauder and Sir Walter Scott
Author: Sir Thomas Dick Lauder
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Letter from Sir Walter Scott to Sir Thomas Dick Lauder
Author: Walter Scott
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Sir Walter Scott: Diary, Letters & Articles - Complete Collection of Autobiographical Writings including Extended Biographies
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026840232
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 3402
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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. He was the first modern English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America. His novels and poetry are still read, and many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026840232
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 3402
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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. He was the first modern English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America. His novels and poetry are still read, and many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.
The Invention of Scotland
Author: Hugh Trevor-Roper
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300176538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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This book argues that while Anglo-Saxon culture has given rise to virtually no myths at all, myth has played a central role in the historical development of Scottish identity. Hugh Trevor-Roper explores three myths across 400 years of Scottish history: the political myth of the "ancient constitution" of Scotland; the literary myth, including Walter Scott as well as Ossian and ancient poetry; and the sartorial myth of tartan and the kilt, invented--ironically, by Englishmen--in quite modern times. Trevor-Roper reveals myth as an often deliberate cultural construction used to enshrine a people's identity. While his treatment of Scottish myth is highly critical, indeed debunking, he shows how the ritualization and domestication of Scotland's myths as local color diverted the Scottish intelligentsia from the path that led German intellectuals to a dangerous myth of racial supremacy. This compelling manuscript was left unpublished on Trevor-Roper's death in 2003 and is now made available for the first time. Written with characteristic elegance, lucidity, and wit, and containing defiant and challenging opinions, it will absorb and provoke Scottish readers while intriguing many others. "I believe that the whole history of Scotland has been coloured by myth; and that myth, in Scotland, is never driven out by reality, or by reason, but lingers on until another myth has been discovered, or elaborated, to replace it."-Hugh Trevor-Roper
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300176538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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This book argues that while Anglo-Saxon culture has given rise to virtually no myths at all, myth has played a central role in the historical development of Scottish identity. Hugh Trevor-Roper explores three myths across 400 years of Scottish history: the political myth of the "ancient constitution" of Scotland; the literary myth, including Walter Scott as well as Ossian and ancient poetry; and the sartorial myth of tartan and the kilt, invented--ironically, by Englishmen--in quite modern times. Trevor-Roper reveals myth as an often deliberate cultural construction used to enshrine a people's identity. While his treatment of Scottish myth is highly critical, indeed debunking, he shows how the ritualization and domestication of Scotland's myths as local color diverted the Scottish intelligentsia from the path that led German intellectuals to a dangerous myth of racial supremacy. This compelling manuscript was left unpublished on Trevor-Roper's death in 2003 and is now made available for the first time. Written with characteristic elegance, lucidity, and wit, and containing defiant and challenging opinions, it will absorb and provoke Scottish readers while intriguing many others. "I believe that the whole history of Scotland has been coloured by myth; and that myth, in Scotland, is never driven out by reality, or by reason, but lingers on until another myth has been discovered, or elaborated, to replace it."-Hugh Trevor-Roper
The Romantic Story of the Highland Garb and the Tartan
Author: John Gunn MacKay
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Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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The Letters of Sir Walter Scott ...: 1821-1823
Author: Walter Scott
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925: Manuscripts 1-1800, charters and other formal documents 1-900
Author: National Library of Scotland
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Literature
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Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Languages : en
Pages : 524
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The Invention of Tradition
Author: Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107394511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention – the creation of Welsh and Scottish 'national culture'; the elaboration of British royal rituals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the origins of imperial rituals in British India and Africa; and the attempts by radical movements to develop counter-traditions of their own. It addresses the complex interaction of past and present, bringing together historians and anthropologists in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism which poses new questions for the understanding of our history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107394511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention – the creation of Welsh and Scottish 'national culture'; the elaboration of British royal rituals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the origins of imperial rituals in British India and Africa; and the attempts by radical movements to develop counter-traditions of their own. It addresses the complex interaction of past and present, bringing together historians and anthropologists in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism which poses new questions for the understanding of our history.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. ... A New Edition, Etc
Author: John Gibson Lockhart
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Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Pages : 858
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