David Forsyth and Wendy Ugolini (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474402736
- eISBN:
- 9781474422499
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474402736.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Scottish Studies
This edited collection provides a comparative overview of the nineteenth-century emergence of military Scottishness and explores how the construction and performance of Scottish military identity has ...
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This edited collection provides a comparative overview of the nineteenth-century emergence of military Scottishness and explores how the construction and performance of Scottish military identity has evolved in different Commonwealth countries over the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It looks at the ways in which diasporic Scottish volunteer regiments sought to draw upon, align themselves with or redefine the assertions of martial identity which Highland regiments represented. This volume considers the functioning and meaning of military Scottishness in Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand and South Africa from the late Victorian period to the present day, with a particular focus on the First World War. It examines how the identity of the Scottish diaspora was often articulated and expressed through the formation of military units which adhered to outwardly Scottish regimental forms. It also illuminates the associational culture and social networking which operated behind local regiments and military units among Scotland’s global diaspora. It also serves to highlight the complex interplay between class, ethnic and national identities amongst Scottish settlers and their families in the Dominions. It makes use of art, literature, recruitment posters, uniforms and related material culture to emphasise the importance of martial imagery to Scotland’s sense of self.Less
This edited collection provides a comparative overview of the nineteenth-century emergence of military Scottishness and explores how the construction and performance of Scottish military identity has evolved in different Commonwealth countries over the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It looks at the ways in which diasporic Scottish volunteer regiments sought to draw upon, align themselves with or redefine the assertions of martial identity which Highland regiments represented. This volume considers the functioning and meaning of military Scottishness in Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand and South Africa from the late Victorian period to the present day, with a particular focus on the First World War. It examines how the identity of the Scottish diaspora was often articulated and expressed through the formation of military units which adhered to outwardly Scottish regimental forms. It also illuminates the associational culture and social networking which operated behind local regiments and military units among Scotland’s global diaspora. It also serves to highlight the complex interplay between class, ethnic and national identities amongst Scottish settlers and their families in the Dominions. It makes use of art, literature, recruitment posters, uniforms and related material culture to emphasise the importance of martial imagery to Scotland’s sense of self.
Philip F. Kennedy
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474413725
- eISBN:
- 9781474427081
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474413725.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
The recognition scene is a feature of narrative that has shown extraordinary resilience in literary history and transformative power in works of literature. The evidence lies in its robust survival ...
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The recognition scene is a feature of narrative that has shown extraordinary resilience in literary history and transformative power in works of literature. The evidence lies in its robust survival and reinventions from antiquity to the present time. It thrives in most traditions of storytelling, and across all narrative media, from primitive oral folklore to the most sophisticated contemporary novels and films. In quality it ranges from the artistically sublime to rude cliche. The recognition scene has several key features: in its commonest form, it gives resolving shape to the plot of a story, very often providing ‘the sense of an ending’, and stands for narrative knowledge and enlightenment. It can carry – within a relatively circumscribed moment – the signature of an entire narrative. It is the part of a story that is emblematic of the whole and can thus act as the very token and sterling stamp of fiction, even though it exists in tales that are both imagined and real. In its most classic form, the recognition scene is clearly both a theme and a structuring device – what we learn from and through it – can bring closure to a narrative.Less
The recognition scene is a feature of narrative that has shown extraordinary resilience in literary history and transformative power in works of literature. The evidence lies in its robust survival and reinventions from antiquity to the present time. It thrives in most traditions of storytelling, and across all narrative media, from primitive oral folklore to the most sophisticated contemporary novels and films. In quality it ranges from the artistically sublime to rude cliche. The recognition scene has several key features: in its commonest form, it gives resolving shape to the plot of a story, very often providing ‘the sense of an ending’, and stands for narrative knowledge and enlightenment. It can carry – within a relatively circumscribed moment – the signature of an entire narrative. It is the part of a story that is emblematic of the whole and can thus act as the very token and sterling stamp of fiction, even though it exists in tales that are both imagined and real. In its most classic form, the recognition scene is clearly both a theme and a structuring device – what we learn from and through it – can bring closure to a narrative.
James J. Coleman
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780748676903
- eISBN:
- 9781474405966
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748676903.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Scottish Studies
At a time when the Union between Scotland and England is once again under the spotlight, Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland examines the way in which Scotland’s national heroes were ...
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At a time when the Union between Scotland and England is once again under the spotlight, Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland examines the way in which Scotland’s national heroes were once remembered as champions of both Scottish and British patriotism. Whereas 19th-century Scotland is popularly depicted as a mire of sentimental Jacobitism and kow-towing unionism, this book shows how Scotland’s national heroes were once the embodiment of a consistent, expressive and robust view of Scottish nationality. Whether celebrating the legacy of William Wallace and Robert Bruce, the reformer John Knox, the Covenanters, 19th-century Scots rooted their national heroes in a Presbyterian and unionist view of Scotland’s past.
Examined through the prism of commemoration, this book uncovers collective memories of Scotland’s past entirely opposed to 21st-century assumptions of medieval proto-nationalism and Calvinist misery.
Detailed studies of 19th-century commemoration of Scotland’s national heroes
Uncovers an all but forgotten interpretation of these ‘great Scots’
Shines a new light on the mindset of nineteenth-century Scottish national identity as being comfortably Scottish and British
Overturns the prevailing view of Victorian Scottishness as parochial, sentimental tartanryLess
At a time when the Union between Scotland and England is once again under the spotlight, Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland examines the way in which Scotland’s national heroes were once remembered as champions of both Scottish and British patriotism. Whereas 19th-century Scotland is popularly depicted as a mire of sentimental Jacobitism and kow-towing unionism, this book shows how Scotland’s national heroes were once the embodiment of a consistent, expressive and robust view of Scottish nationality. Whether celebrating the legacy of William Wallace and Robert Bruce, the reformer John Knox, the Covenanters, 19th-century Scots rooted their national heroes in a Presbyterian and unionist view of Scotland’s past.
Examined through the prism of commemoration, this book uncovers collective memories of Scotland’s past entirely opposed to 21st-century assumptions of medieval proto-nationalism and Calvinist misery.
Detailed studies of 19th-century commemoration of Scotland’s national heroes
Uncovers an all but forgotten interpretation of these ‘great Scots’
Shines a new light on the mindset of nineteenth-century Scottish national identity as being comfortably Scottish and British
Overturns the prevailing view of Victorian Scottishness as parochial, sentimental tartanry
Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment
An Alternative Internet
American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film
American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century
Art, Performance and Ritual in Benin City
Beyond the State in Rural Uganda
The Blasphemies of Thomas Aikenhead
British News Media and the Spanish Civil War
British Propaganda and News Media in the Cold War
