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Article: The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
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- June 22, 2002
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Janet Sorensen. The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. x, 318. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-65327-4.
The Grammar of Empire is an enquiry into the "amalgamation" of Scotland into "Great Britain" in the eighteenth century. Janet Sorensen argues that this amalgamation (which might well be termed the extension of English hegemony) was effected in uneven and difficult ways; that it involved military and economic coercion, as well as the education of Scottish people into consent; and that debates about the provenance of languages, and oral and literary cultures, were central to the making of the culture of the ...