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Mass Market Romance Fiction and the Representation of Scotland in the United States

The Modern Scottish Diaspora, 2014, p.171

2014 Duncan Sim ;2014 Murray Stewart Leith ;ISBN: 074868140X ;ISBN: 9780748681402 ;EISBN: 0748681426 ;EISBN: 9780748681426 ;OCLC: 903488801 ;LCCallNum: DA774.5 -- .M64 2014eb

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Title:
Mass Market Romance Fiction and the Representation of Scotland in the United States
Author: Leith, Murray Stewart ; Sim, Duncan
Duncan Sim ; Murray Stewart Leith
Subjects: American studies ; Anthropology ; Applied sciences ; Artists ; Arts ; Authors ; Behavioral sciences ; British literature ; British studies ; Clans ; Communication systems ; Communications technology ; Diasporas ; Digital communication systems ; Earth sciences ; Economic disciplines ; Economics ; Employment ; Ethnography ; Ethnology ; European studies ; Fiction ; Geography ; Geomorphology ; Highlands ; History of the Americas ; Human geography ; Human migration ; Human societies ; Internet ; Labor economics ; Literary elements ; Literary genres ; Literary history ; Literary studies ; Literature ; Migration, immigration & emigration ; North American history ; Novels ; Occupations ; Physical sciences ; Regional & national history ; Romance novels ; Romantic literature ; Setting ; Social sciences ; Social structures ; Sociology ; Technology ; Topography ; United States history ; Websites ; World Wide Web ; Writers
Is Part Of: The Modern Scottish Diaspora, 2014, p.171
Description: Scottish authors like Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott have long been popular in the United States. Burns Suppers are celebrated by members of the Scottish diaspora and, somewhat infamously, inLife on the Mississippi(1883) Mark Twain cited Walter Scott’s intoxicating mixture of historical romance and nationalism as inciting secessionist passions in the US South and promulgating America’s nineteenth-century Civil War. There is also the case of Thomas Dixon’s trilogy of white supremacist novels, beginning withThe Clansman(1905), which venerated the Ku Klux Klan whose members were ‘the reincarnated souls of the Clansmen of Old Scotland’. Today, however,
Publisher: United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 074868140X
ISBN: 9780748681402
EISBN: 0748681426
EISBN: 9780748681426
OCLC: 903488801
LCCallNum: DA774.5 -- .M64 2014eb
Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete

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Mass Market Romance Fiction and the Representation of Scotland in the United States

2014 Duncan Sim ;2014 Murray Stewart Leith ;ISBN: 074868140X ;ISBN: 9780748681402 ;EISBN: 0748681426 ;EISBN: 9780748681426 ;OCLC: 903488801 ;LCCallNum: DA774.5 -- .M64 2014eb

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