The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence

Cairns Craig

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2018

The Wealth of the Nation

Scotland, Culture and Independence

Cairns Craig

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474435598

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A critical appraisal of Scotland’s cultural wealth and global distinction

The Wealth of the Nation explores how Scotland has continued to assert its distinctive cultural difference despite the three-hundred-year union with England and the modern forces of globalisation. Dealing with Scotland since the eighteenth century, the study analyses how Scottish culture defined itself within the British Empire and how, in the late twentieth century, it recovered from the collapse of the Empire to rebuild the value of its cultural past. Through its focus on the role of memory in philosophy, literature and the visual arts, readers will gain understanding of the influence that modern Scottish writers and artists have had on contemporary Scottish nationalism. The book argues that political nationalism in modern Scotland is founded on a cultural revival that began in the 1950s and 60s but gained momentum from resistance to the outcome of the 1979 devolution referendum. That resistance, and the creative achievements which it generated, provoked a re-examination of the nation’s cultural history, revealing a wealth previously denied or forgotten.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	iv
Introduction: The Wealth of the Nation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Cultural Capital and the Xeniteian Empire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2 In the Race of History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
3 Living Memory: Nostalgia, Necromancy and Nostophobia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
4 Theoxenia: Openings to the Gods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
5 Unsettled Will: Culture and Scottish Independence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 312
Keywords: Scottish Studies

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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474435598