English hegemony/Scottish subjectivity

Calvinism and cultural resistance in the nineteenth-century 'North British' novel

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English hegemony/Scottish subjectivity
Caroline McCracken-Flesher
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English hegemony/Scottish subjectivity

Calvinism and cultural resistance in the nineteenth-century 'North British' novel

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Tracks the strategic use of Calvinism to establish Scottish difference in the nineteenth century. Looks particularly at Scott, Hogg, and Stevenson. Texts include: Old Mortality, The Heart of Midlothian, The Brownie of Bodsbeck, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, "Thrawn Janet," "The Merry Men," The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and The Master of Ballantrae.

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English
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218

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First Sentence

"Colonized peoples struggle for "permission to narrate," according to Edward Said. That is, they battle to tell their own tale, and thus to assert a reality distinct from that imposed by the intrusive power. In this dissertation, I trace the efforts of nineteenth-century Scotland's authors to retrieve and assert a specifically Scottish tale, one that will enable Scots to maintain their separate subjectivity while yet participating in England's alluring narrative of bourgeois economic mobility. The tale they retrieve is a vigorous narrative based on Calvinism. Across the dissertation, I focus on successive attempts by Scott, Hogg and Stevenson to precipitate nineteenth-century Scotland's pervasive Calvinist ideology into the national consciousness, and to make it function as a buttress against cultural colonization."

Table of Contents

Introduction. English hegemony/Scottish subjectivity + Calvin Redivivus + Calvinism and Cultural Resistance Page 1
1. Parenting the Scottish Subject: Walter Scott's Calvinist response to the problem of identity Page 40
2. James Hogg: Calvinist figurations of class conflict Page 83
3. Robert Louis Stevenson: Capital and the devalued Scottish subject Page 136
Conclusion. Page 190
Works Consulted. Page 194

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-218).

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viii, 218 p.
Number of pages
218

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OL18699967M

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