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dc.contributor.authorKidd, Colin Craig
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-31T23:37:53Z
dc.date.available2019-05-31T23:37:53Z
dc.date.issued2016-06-01
dc.identifier.citationKidd , C C 2016 , ' British Literature : the career of a concept ' , Scottish Literary Review , vol. 8 , no. 1 , pp. 1-16 . < http://muse.jhu.edu/article/619274 >en
dc.identifier.issn1756-5634
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 243472479
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 21868f7f-a26d-42a0-a092-9957007ede2f
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-5111-4540/work/45012959
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000378013000002
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85038585513
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/17794
dc.description.abstractBritish Literature is an unfamiliar concept in literary studies. English Literature and Scottish Literature are the customary terms of art, expressive, it seems, of the distinctive national cultures from which these literatures emerge. Indeed, English Literature, rather than British Literature also does service as an umbrella for all Anglophone literatures. However, the idea of British Literature has a longer history. In the eighteenth century there was a keen sense among literary antiquaries and philologists that the sister languages of English and Scots had produced a striking corpus of medieval Anglo-Scottish literature. In the nineteenth century ‘British Literature’ entered the currency of criticism. However, the coming of the Scots literary renaissance in the inter-War era killed off this usage. In more recent decades, with the growing recognition that the UK is a multi-national state a new appreciation of ‘British Literature’ – associated with cultural pluralism and the expansion of the English canon – has emerged.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofScottish Literary Reviewen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2016 Association for Scottish Literary Studies and individual contributors. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at http://muse.jhu.edu/article/619274en
dc.subjectBritish literatureen
dc.subjectEnglish literatureen
dc.subjectScottish literatureen
dc.subjectRenaissanceen
dc.subjectUnionen
dc.subject1707en
dc.subjectUnited Kingdomen
dc.subjectPR English literatureen
dc.subject.lccPRen
dc.titleBritish Literature : the career of a concepten
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Historyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Legal and Constitutional Researchen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Global Law and Governanceen
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2019-06-01
dc.identifier.urlhttp://muse.jhu.edu/article/619274en


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