Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511484186

Originally published in 2004, Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism is a collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 - a key period marking the contested divide between Scottish Enlightenment and Romanticism in British literary history. Essays in the volume, by leading scholars from Scotland, England, Canada and the USA, address a range of major figures and topics, among them Hume and the Romantic imagination, Burns's poetry, the Scottish song and ballad revivals, gender and national tradition, the prose fiction of Walter Scott and James Hogg, the national theatre of Joanna Baillie, the Romantic varieties of historicism and antiquarianism, Romantic Orientalism, and Scotland as a site of English cultural fantasies. The essays undertake a collective rethinking of the national and period categories that have structured British literary history, by examining the relations between the concepts of Enlightenment and Romanticism as well as between Scottish and English writing.

Review of the hardback:'Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism counters the grand and crude essentialist narratives propagated by Smith and Muir with a particularity of detail that rehabilitates not only Scotland as a place of Romantic recognition as mature as England, but also the much maligned Scottish Enlightenment.'

Gerard Carruthers Source: Review of Scottish Culture

Review of the hardback:'… ground-breaking … manages simultaneously to be wide-ranging and in firm control of its overall argument. The volume has not only surveyed the ground: it has issued a challenge.'

Source: Studies in Hogg and his World

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
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List of contributors
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
pp 1-19
- By Ian Duncan, Professor of English University of California, Berkeley, Leith Davis, Associate Professor of English Simon Fraser University, Janet Sorensen, Associate Professor of English Indiana University at Bloomington
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1 - Coleridge, Hume, and the chains of the Romantic imagination
pp 20-37
- By Cairns Craig, Professor of Scottish and Modern Literature, and Director of the Centre for the History of Ideas Scotland, University of Edinburgh
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2 - The pathos of abstraction: Adam Smith, Ossian, and Samuel Johnson
pp 38-56
- By Ian Duncan, Professor of English University of California, Berkeley
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3 - Antiquarianism, the Scottish Science of Man, and the emergence of modern disciplinarity
pp 57-76
- By Susan Manning, Professor of English Literature University of Edinburgh
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4 - Melancholy, memory, and the “narrative situation” of history in post-Enlightenment Scotland
pp 77-93
- By Ina Ferris, Professor of English University of Ottawa
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5 - Scott, the Scottish Enlightenment, and Romantic Orientalism
pp 94-112
- By James Watt, Lecturer Department of English and Related Literature, University of York
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6 - Walter Scott's Romantic postmodernity
pp 113-129
- By Jerome McGann, Professor Department of English, University of Virginia
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7 - Putting down the Rising
pp 130-138
- By John Barrell, Professor of English Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York
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8 - Joanna Baillie stages the nation
pp 139-152
- By Alyson Bardsley, Assistant Professor Department of English, Speech, and World Literature, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
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9 - William Wordsworth and William Cobbett: Scotch travel and British reform
pp 153-169
- By Peter J. Manning, Professor and Chair Department of English, Stony Brook University
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10 - Burns's topographies
pp 170-187
- By Penny Fielding, Senior Lecturer Department of English, University of Edinburgh
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11 - At “sang about”: Scottish song and the challenge to British culture
pp 188-203
- By Leith Davis, Associate Professor Department of English, Simon Fraser University
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12 - Romantic spinstrelsy: Anne Bannerman and the sexual politics of the ballad
pp 204-224
- By Adriana Craciun, Lecturer Department of English, Birkbeck College, University of London
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13 - “The fause nourice sang”: childhood, child murder, and the formalism of the Scottish ballad revival
pp 225-244
- By Ann Wierda Rowland, Assistant Professor Department of English, Harvard University
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Index
pp 245-248
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of contributors
pp vii-vii

Acknowledgments
pp viii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-19

1 - Coleridge, Hume, and the chains of the Romantic imagination
pp 20-37

2 - The pathos of abstraction: Adam Smith, Ossian, and Samuel Johnson
pp 38-56

3 - Antiquarianism, the Scottish Science of Man, and the emergence of modern disciplinarity
pp 57-76

4 - Melancholy, memory, and the “narrative situation” of history in post-Enlightenment Scotland
pp 77-93

5 - Scott, the Scottish Enlightenment, and Romantic Orientalism
pp 94-112

6 - Walter Scott's Romantic postmodernity
pp 113-129

7 - Putting down the Rising
pp 130-138

8 - Joanna Baillie stages the nation
pp 139-152

9 - William Wordsworth and William Cobbett: Scotch travel and British reform
pp 153-169

10 - Burns's topographies
pp 170-187

11 - At “sang about”: Scottish song and the challenge to British culture
pp 188-203

12 - Romantic spinstrelsy: Anne Bannerman and the sexual politics of the ballad
pp 204-224

13 - “The fause nourice sang”: childhood, child murder, and the formalism of the Scottish ballad revival
pp 225-244

Index
pp 245-248

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