The Transportation of the Scottish Martyrs in 1793: A Particular Form of Exile?
This article will focus on some of the essential traits of the concept of exile through the study of the transportation of the Scottish Martyrs, the supporters of the radical cause who marked the political history of the eighteenth century, and more particularly of their emblematic figure Thomas Mui...
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| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Études écossaises
2011
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | This article will focus on some of the essential traits of the concept of exile through the study of the transportation of the Scottish Martyrs, the supporters of the radical cause who marked the political history of the eighteenth century, and more particularly of their emblematic figure Thomas Muir, a lawyer from Glasgow and a passionate defender of the French revolution. Fearing the spread of radical ideas, the authorities decided to arrest the leaders of the movement and sentenced them to transportation to Australia.Drawing on the case of Thomas Muir, this article will try to determine whether the time of political exile differentiates itself from the time of other forms of exile, whether political exile is characterized by a state of “fundamental discontinuity”, to use the words of Edward Said, and whether the political, intellectual or ideological dimension of political exiles enables them to overcome, maybe more than other exiles, the essential sadness of exile. |
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