The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism

ISBN-13: 9780748638468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 264 str.

Murray Pittock

Opis

Bringing together an international group of experts, this companion explores a distinctly Scottish Romanticism. Discussing the most influential texts and authors in depth, the original essays shed new critical light on texts from Macpherson's Ossian poetry to Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, and from Scott's Waverley Novels to the work of John Galt. As well as dealing with the major Romantic figures, the contributors look afresh at ballads, songs, the idea of the bard, religion, periodicals, the national tale, the picturesque, the city, language and the role of Gaelic in Scottish Romanticism.

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Series Editors' Preface; Introduction: What is Scottish Romanticism?, Murray Pittock; Section 1: The Scottish Public Sphere: Themes, Groups and Identities; 1. Ballads and Chapbooks, Steve Newman; 2. Romantic Macpherson, Fiona Stafford; 3. Scottish Song, Lyric Poetry and the Romantic Composer, Kirsteen McCue; 4. Gaelic Literature and Scottish Romanticism, Thomas Clancy; 5. Travel Writing and the Picturesque, Matthew Wickman; 6. Urban Space and Enlightened Romanticism, Ian Duncan; 7. Periodicals and Public Culture, Alex Benchimol; 8. The Scottish National Tale, Andrew Monnickendam; 9. Religion and Scottish Romanticism, Crawford Gribben; Section 2: Authors and Texts; 10. Robert Burns and Romanticism in Britain and Ireland, Nigel Leask; 11. Walter Scott's Romanticism: a Theory of Performance, Caroline McCracken-Flesher; 12. Byron, Brean Hammond; 13. John Galt's Fictional and Performative Worlds, Angela Esterhammer; 14. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Peter Garside; 15. The function of linguistic variety in Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian, Fernando Toda; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.