Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland: Interventions: New Studies Medieval Cult
Autor Katherine H. Terrellen Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mar 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814214626
ISBN-10: 0814214622
Pagini: 234
Ilustrații: 1 b&w
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria Interventions: New Studies Medieval Cult
ISBN-10: 0814214622
Pagini: 234
Ilustrații: 1 b&w
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria Interventions: New Studies Medieval Cult
Recenzii
“Katherine H. Terrell’s important study breaks new ground in situating the work of poets associated with the court of James IV—William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy, and Gavin Douglas—within a tradition stemming from Latin and vernacular chronicle history.… [Her] rich and careful study offers valuable insight into the cultural landscape of late medieval Scotland, demonstrating how literature, history, and myth are imbricated in the construction of ideas of nation.” —Elizabeth Elliott, Speculum
“Terrell’s persuasive and deeply scholarly study weaves together literary and historiographical scholarship to offer substantial new insights into the poetry associated with the court of James IV, a period crucial for both the development of Older Scots literature and for Scotland’s transformed sense of itself as a nation.” —Rhiannon Purdie, editorial secretary of the Scottish Text Society
“Scripting the Nation is impressively rigorous in its analysis and based on an intimate knowledge of the texts discussed and the contexts in which they were written. It has strong interdisciplinary credentials and contributes substantially to ongoing research in the fields of Scottish and English literature as well as engaging with issues of cultural and national identity.” —Roger A. Mason, editor of Scots and Britons: Scottish Political Thought and the Union of 1603
“This book is a very timely intervention in a medieval studies that is currently looking long and hard at its historical allegiances to nationalisms past and present.” —Antony J. Hasler, author of Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland: Allegories of Authority
“Terrell’s persuasive and deeply scholarly study weaves together literary and historiographical scholarship to offer substantial new insights into the poetry associated with the court of James IV, a period crucial for both the development of Older Scots literature and for Scotland’s transformed sense of itself as a nation.” —Rhiannon Purdie, editorial secretary of the Scottish Text Society
“Scripting the Nation is impressively rigorous in its analysis and based on an intimate knowledge of the texts discussed and the contexts in which they were written. It has strong interdisciplinary credentials and contributes substantially to ongoing research in the fields of Scottish and English literature as well as engaging with issues of cultural and national identity.” —Roger A. Mason, editor of Scots and Britons: Scottish Political Thought and the Union of 1603
“This book is a very timely intervention in a medieval studies that is currently looking long and hard at its historical allegiances to nationalisms past and present.” —Antony J. Hasler, author of Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland: Allegories of Authority
Notă biografică
Katherine H. Terrell is Professor of Literature at Hamilton College.
Extras
The Scottish writers that I consider in this book both appropriate and subvert English literary models, creating a complex nationalist discourse that, even at its most fervently autonomous, is always engaged in a dialogic relationship with its sources. For these authors, whose intimate involvement with English texts helps to define their own nationalist projects, writing is always also a process of writing back. Far from being symptomatic of complicity in what R. R. Davies calls the “Anglicization of the British Isles,” the dialogic nature of these Scottish writings resists English cultural and political hegemony through the very act of redeploying English structures for ostentatiously Scottish ends. In turning literary indebtedness to their own purposes, the Scottish participants in this (frequently one-sided) dialogue define and delimit Scottish national identity in terms that differentiate it strikingly from its English precedents. Mingling the literary and historical past into narrative representations that take on the autonomous authority of myth, they reveal sources of nation and culture that they then map onto Scotland’s present and project into its future. Writing back to England becomes indistinguishable from the nationalist project of writing Scotland.
Thus, chroniclers in the tradition of John of Fordun and Walter Bower, while patterning their histories on English chronicles, fashion compelling myths of Scottish origins that refute English assertions of hegemony over Scotland and powerfully influence Anglo-Scottish diplomacy. Similarly, the early sixteenth-century poets Gavin Douglas and William Dunbar devise narratives of Chaucerian inheritance that authorize their attempts to create a uniquely Scottish poetics, capable of surpassing Chaucer’s achievements. These seemingly diverse modes of writing intersect not only in their similar treatment of English models but also in their common concern with (re)scripting history as genealogical myth, a revisionary process that affirms the continuities between the present and an idyllic past imagined as a site of literary and political precedent. Positioning themselves as writers and as Scots in relation to this complex historical terrain, these writers negotiate a sense of identity rooted in history, while actively seeking to intervene in Scotland’s cultural and political future.
As the period during which Scottish culture first began to coalesce around the royal court, James IV’s reign provides a focal point for the poetic texts under consideration in this book. Accordingly, two of the poems most obviously and intimately concerned with Scottish nationalism—John Barbour’s Bruce and Blind Hary’s Wallace—fall outside the scope of this study. Their perspectives on nationalism and their links to the chronicle tradition have already been well explored, most notably by James Goldstein. In choosing to focus, instead, on the court poetry of Kennedy, Douglas, and Dunbar, I address a site of nationalist discourse that is at once more subtle and more complex than Barbour’s and Hary’s poems dealing directly with the Scottish Wars of Independence. While Barbour sought to celebrate and strengthen a nascent monarchy, and Hary to further bolster Scottish nationalism in response to James III’s pro-English policies, the poets of James IV’s reign were concerned with a different set of questions. As Sally Mapstone has argued, “It would be quite wrong to suggest that court life and courtly literature, even the court poet, had the same character before the 1490s as they were to have after them.” James IV’s mature rule opened up a brief space in which Scottish poets could ask not what it was to become a nation but what it was to inhabit one. I contend that this court poetry, written more than a century after Scotland’s reestablishment as an independent nation, seeks to consolidate Scottish national identity through its focus on the court as a site of Scottish self-definition and its persistent concern with marking out a distinct realm of Scottish cultural and poetic achievement.
As the period during which Scottish culture first began to coalesce around the royal court, James IV’s reign provides a focal point for the poetic texts under consideration in this book. Accordingly, two of the poems most obviously and intimately concerned with Scottish nationalism—John Barbour’s Bruce and Blind Hary’s Wallace—fall outside the scope of this study. Their perspectives on nationalism and their links to the chronicle tradition have already been well explored, most notably by James Goldstein. In choosing to focus, instead, on the court poetry of Kennedy, Douglas, and Dunbar, I address a site of nationalist discourse that is at once more subtle and more complex than Barbour’s and Hary’s poems dealing directly with the Scottish Wars of Independence. While Barbour sought to celebrate and strengthen a nascent monarchy, and Hary to further bolster Scottish nationalism in response to James III’s pro-English policies, the poets of James IV’s reign were concerned with a different set of questions. As Sally Mapstone has argued, “It would be quite wrong to suggest that court life and courtly literature, even the court poet, had the same character before the 1490s as they were to have after them.” James IV’s mature rule opened up a brief space in which Scottish poets could ask not what it was to become a nation but what it was to inhabit one. I contend that this court poetry, written more than a century after Scotland’s reestablishment as an independent nation, seeks to consolidate Scottish national identity through its focus on the court as a site of Scottish self-definition and its persistent concern with marking out a distinct realm of Scottish cultural and poetic achievement.
Cuprins
Introduction
Chapter 1 On the Uses of the Past: Diplomacy, Genealogy, and Historiography
Chapter 2 Subversive Histories: Strategies of Identity in Scottish Historiography
Chapter 3 “Ane worthier genology”: Translatio Imperii and the Divine Imperative of History
Chapter 4 Legacies of Nationalist Historiography and the Founding of Scottish Poetry
Chapter 5 Literary Genealogy and National Identity in Dunbar and Kennedy
Chapter 6 From Courtly Love to Court Poetics: Dunbar’s Petitions and the Scottish Transformation of Tradition
Chapter 7 “Writtin in the Langage of Scottis Natioun”: The Political Poetry of Douglas’s Eneados
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Chapter 1 On the Uses of the Past: Diplomacy, Genealogy, and Historiography
Chapter 2 Subversive Histories: Strategies of Identity in Scottish Historiography
Chapter 3 “Ane worthier genology”: Translatio Imperii and the Divine Imperative of History
Chapter 4 Legacies of Nationalist Historiography and the Founding of Scottish Poetry
Chapter 5 Literary Genealogy and National Identity in Dunbar and Kennedy
Chapter 6 From Courtly Love to Court Poetics: Dunbar’s Petitions and the Scottish Transformation of Tradition
Chapter 7 “Writtin in the Langage of Scottis Natioun”: The Political Poetry of Douglas’s Eneados
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Descriere
Combines literary and historiographical scholarship to examine Scottish writers who created a literary-cultural nationalist project by appropriating and subverting English literary models.