Nationalism in Literature: Literature, Language and National Identity

by Horst W. Drescher

Summary

Literary and social historians from Austria, Canada, England, France, Germany, Scotland, the United States, and Wales discuss nationalist tendencies and the search for cultural and/or national/ regional identity in literature. Although the main focus is on Scotland and the Scottish element in the New World, evidence from other nations/regions - Catalonia, Galicia, Ireland, Slovenia, and Wales - is included to widen the socio-cultural perspective.