Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland : : Commemoration, Nationality and Memory / / James Coleman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Coleman, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

Exposes ever-changing attitudes to Scotland's national heroes, from Wallace the unionist paragon to Knox the national hero 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.Key FeaturesDetailed studies of 19th-century commemoration of Scotland's national heroesUncovers 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 BritishOverturns the prevailing view of Victorian Scottishness as parochial, sentimental tartanry

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Valley Cemetery -- 1 Nationality, Memory and Commemoration -- 2 Scottish Nationality in the Nineteenth Century -- 3 'Not Servile and Conquered, but Free and Independent': Commemorating William Wallace and Robert the Bruce -- 4 'The Highest Position in the Civilised World': Commemorating John Knox and the Second Reformation -- 5 'If They Were Rebels Then, We Are Rebels Now': Commemorating the Covenanters and the Glorious Revolution -- 6 'By the Imprudence of His Ancestors': Commemorating Jacobitism and Mary Queen of Scots -- 7 'Staunch Loyalty to the Flag that Stands for Union' -- Bibliography -- Index