Among 1707 and 1918, Scotland underwent arguably the main dramatic upheavals in its political, monetary and social historical past. The Union with England, industrialisation and Scotland's next defining contributions in the course of the eighteenth and 19th centuries to the tradition of england and Empire are mirrored within the transformative energies of Scottish literature and literary associations within the interval. New genres, new issues and entire new parts of curiosity opened less than the inventive scrutiny of sceptical minds. This moment quantity of the historical past finds the foremost contribution made through Scottish writers and Scottish writing to the form of modernity in Britain, Europe and the world.
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