The Wealth of the Nation : Scotland, Culture and Indpendence
- Submitting institution
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University of Aberdeen
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 116097767
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 978 1 4744 3557 4
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book engages with the history and literature of Scotland from 1760 to 2000. Based on a decade’s research in Scotland, North America and Australasia, it analyses Scottish literature in relation to Scotland’s role as an imperial nation, one that sought, through religious, educational and medical institutions, to establish a distinctively Scottish empire within the British Empire. The book traces the impact of Scotland’s imperial ambitions on the work of Scottish writers (from Smollett and Scott to Spark and Morgan), analyses the consequences of the end of Empire, and examines how literary culture helped shape the politics of Scottish devolution.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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