Macpherson the Historian

Langue : anglais

Edité par Edinburgh University Press, GB, 2023

1474411169 / 9781474411165

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First study of James Macpherson (1736-1796) as an historianSituates Macpherson as a key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, broadening our understanding of historiography and the relationship between history and fictionExplores Macpherson's entire corpus literary, historical, political - to enable new research into Enlightenment disciplines, Romantic notions of conjectural history and interdisciplinary thinkers, adding to the Humanities more widely rather than just Literature or History by re-evaluating an author traditionally studied in Literature as an Enlightenment figure Investigates examples of nation-building and questions of post-Union Scottish and British identity, which will change your perception of national (Scottish, British) and regional (Highland) identities in the Enlightenment and beyond The story remains relevant today: Macpherson as a Scot in London, who retained close connections to his Highland home while promoting a sustained and nuanced British identity without losing sight of Scottishness in his works, reflects contemporary notions of national identityThis is the first book-length study of James Macpherson (1736-1796) that considers him as an historian. From his early poetry, to the Ossianic Collections, his prose histories, and his later political writing, Macpherson's subject was the past and he engaged with the latest Enlightenment theories about how to write history. Macpherson the Historian examines James' published works, from the neoclassical verse of The Highlander (1758) to his pamphlets defending the British imperial state during the late 1770s. In all of these texts, Macpherson wrote as an Enlightenment historian, where ideas about narrative, philosophy, and erudition were interwoven with eighteenth-century debates about the Highlands, commercial modernity, and the British Empire.…

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Titre
Macpherson the Historian
Auteur
Jim MacPherson, Mairi MacPherson
Éditeur
Edinburgh University Press, GB
Année de publication
2023
État de l'article
New
Reliure
Hardback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1474411169
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781474411165

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