Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900

Can Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such comparisons no more than victimology to mask Scottish complicity in the British Empire and justify nationalism? These questions have been heatedly debated...

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Main Author: Stroh, Silke (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois Northwestern University Press 2016
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