Scotland and the First World War (eBook, PDF)

Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Bannockburn
Redaktion: Plain, Gill

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity from the aftermath of Bannockburn to the close of the nineteenth century, and what did the Scottish soldiers of the First World War think they were fighting for? Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation, belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland's encounter with the First World War. In a series of thematically linked essays, experts from the fields of literature, history and cultural studies examine how Scotland remembers war, and how remembering war has shaped Scotland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216356547
• Artikelnr.: 74845711

Autorenporträt

Gill Plain is professor of English at the University of St. Andrews.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Anniversary
Culture and the legacy of Bannockburn Gill Plain Part I: Anniversary
Culture 1. Missing Dates and Magic Numbers: Reflections on 1914 Fran
Brearton 2. Bruce, Wallace and the Diminished Present, 1800-1964 Graeme
Morton Part II: Making the Myths of War and Nation 3. "Men Brave And
Strong": Bannockburn, the Auld Alliance and Scottish Martial Identity in
the Late Middle Ages Michael Brown 4. "Not my land's hills": War and the
Problem of Scottish Homecoming Caroline McCracken-Flesher 5. Medieval
Battlefields and National Narratives, 1830-1918 Carol Symes 6. Bannockburn
after Baston Robert Crawford Part III: Making the Memory of the First World
War 7. "The Spirit of the Crusaders": Scottish Peculiarities, British
Commonalities and European Convergences in the Memorialisation of the Great
War Stefan Goebel 8. Buchan, Bannockburn and Beyond: popular histories of
Scotland's martial past Catriona M. M. Macdonald 9. Women, War and
Internationalism: Notes towards a Counter-History Margaret R. Higonnet 10.
Freedom from judgement above? Predestination and Cultural Trauma in
Scottish Gaelic Poetry of World War I Peter Mackay 11. Shades of Bruce:
Independence and Union in First-World War Scottish Literature David Goldie
Bibliography Notes on Contributors