Recovering Scottish History: John Hill Burton and Scottish National Identity in the Nineteenth Century

Craig Beveridge

Recovering Scottish History: John Hill Burton and Scottish National Identity in the Nineteenth Century
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
27 January 2022
Pages
304
ISBN
9781474491464

Recovering Scottish History: John Hill Burton and Scottish National Identity in the Nineteenth Century

Craig Beveridge

Providing a reassessment of John Hill Burton, a significant figure in 19th-century Scottish thought, this book presents a revision of the predominant historiographic interpretation of nineteenth-century Scotland. It traces Burton’s remarkably diverse social and intellectual acquaintance, and equally varied literary endeavours, from his early life and education in 1820s Aberdeen to his increasingly prominent profile in the Edinburgh of Scott, Jeffrey and Cockburn. A detailed assessment of Burton’s History of Scotland (1873) uncovers major themes which are then related to his formative experiences in the social and cultural world of his time. This analysis
and an examination of the enthusiastic reception of the work at home and abroad
overturn orthodox assumptions of the ‘death’ of Scottish history in the 19th century.

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