England's Scotland

Robert Crawford

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England's Scotland

Robert Crawford

School of English

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Abstract

Examining the treatment of Scotland in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', Johnson's 'Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland' and Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse', this chapter argues that major English writers portray Scotland as ruined and 'other'; it highlights the lack of imaginative interest in Britishness on the part of major creative writers from England, and sees this as an significant aspect of the weakening of commitment to Unionism in Scotland and England.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Literature and Union
Subtitle of host publication	Scottish Texts, British Contexts
Editors	Gerard Carruthers, Colin Kidd
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	331-348
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9780191853722
ISBN (Print)	9780198736233
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198736233.003.0015
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018

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British Unionism
Scotland

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