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Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411564 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kirstie Blair (0000-0003-0040-3670, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 590-594 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1060150318000323 |
| OpenAlex | W4239597316 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
I N the opening of this brief polemic, I must acknowledge conscious bias: as of 5 a.m. on the morning after the Brexit referendum, I am a card-carrying member of the Scottish National Party. This was not anticipated. Brought up in Belfast as an Ulster-Scots Unionist with a determination to be "British" rather than "Irish," and educated in the most English of institutions, I am now in the awkward position of being grateful for the Irish state's continuing political claim on Northern Ireland, which renders me an EU citizen. Once, I was clear that I was British. Now, I am not so sure. Once, I considered myself a scholar of Victorian Britain. Now, I am increasingly aware that up until 2013 I was exclusively a scholar of Victorian England, and, in the present moment, my research is strongly aligned with "Scottish studies," a field which has had surprisingly little dialogue with "Victorian studies
Action (physics · Content (measure theory · Physics · Computer Science · Decadence, Literature, and Society · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Mathematics · Scottish History and National Identity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |