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Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland (Hardcover)
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Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland (Hardcover)
Series: Scottish Historical Review Monograph Second Series
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An examination of how and why Scotland gained its reputation for
the supernatural, and how belief continued to flourish in a
supposed Age of Enlightenment. SHORTLISTED for the Katharine Briggs
Award 2019 Scotland is famed for being a haunted nation, "whare
ghaists and houlets nightly cry". Medieval Scots told stories of
restless souls and walking corpses, but after the 1560Reformation,
witches and demons became the focal point for explorations of the
supernatural. Ghosts re-emerged in scholarly discussion in the late
seventeenth century, often in the guise of religious propagandists.
As time went on, physicians increasingly reframed ghosts as the
conjurations of disturbed minds, but gothic and romantic literature
revelled in the emotive power of the returning dead; they were
placed against a backdrop of ancient monasteries,castles and
mouldering ruins, and authors such as Robert Burns, James Hogg and
Walter Scott drew on the macabre to colour their depictions of
Scottish life. Meanwhile, folk culture used apparitions to talk
about morality and mortality. Focusing on the period from 1685 to
1830, this book provides the first academic study of the history of
Scottish ghosts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, and examining
beliefs across the social spectrum, it shows howghost stories
achieved a new prominence in a period that is more usually
associated with the rise of rationalism. In exploring perceptions
of ghosts, it also reflects on understandings of death and the
afterlife; the constructionof national identity; and the impact of
the Enlightenment. MARTHA MCGILL completed her PhD at the
University of Edinburgh.
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