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Christian Isobel Johnstone's Clan-Albin: A National Tale was
published in 1815, less than a year after Walter Scott's Waverley;
or 'tis Sixty Years Since enthralled readers and initiated a craze
for Scottish novels. Both as a novelist and as editor of Tait's
Edinburgh Magazine from 1834 to 1846, Johnstone was a powerful
figure in Romantic Edinburgh's literary scene. But her works and
her reputation have long been overshadowed by Scott's. In
Clan-Albin, Johnstone engages with themes on British imperial
expansion, metropolitan England's economic and political
relationships with the Celtic peripheries, and the role of women in
public life. This rare novel, alongside extensive editorial
commentary, will be of much interest to students of British
Literature.
Revising traditional 'rise of the nation-state' narratives, this
collection explores the development of and interactions among
various forms of local, national, and transnational identities and
affiliations during the long eighteenth century. By treating place
as historically contingent and socially constructed, this volume
examines how Britons experienced and related to a landscape altered
by agricultural and industrial modernization, political and
religious reform, migration, and the building of nascent overseas
empires. In mapping the literary and cultural geographies of the
long eighteenth century, the volume poses three challenges to
common critical assumptions about the relationships among genre,
place, and periodization. First, it questions the novel's exclusive
hold on the imagining of national communities by examining how
poetry, drama, travel-writing, and various forms of prose fiction
each negotiated the relationships between the local, national, and
global in distinct ways. Second, it demonstrates how viewing the
literature and culture of the long eighteenth century through a
broadly conceived lens of place brings to the foreground authors
typically considered 'minor' when seen through more traditional
aesthetic, cultural, or theoretical optics. Finally, it
contextualizes Romanticism's long-standing associations with the
local and the particular, suggesting that literary localism did not
originate in the Romantic era, but instead emerged from previous
literary and cultural explorations of space and place. Taken
together, the essays work to displace the nation-state as a central
category of literary and cultural analysis in eighteenth-century
studies.
Revising traditional 'rise of the nation-state' narratives, this
collection explores the development of and interactions among
various forms of local, national, and transnational identities and
affiliations during the long eighteenth century. By treating place
as historically contingent and socially constructed, this volume
examines how Britons experienced and related to a landscape altered
by agricultural and industrial modernization, political and
religious reform, migration, and the building of nascent overseas
empires. In mapping the literary and cultural geographies of the
long eighteenth century, the volume poses three challenges to
common critical assumptions about the relationships among genre,
place, and periodization. First, it questions the novel's exclusive
hold on the imagining of national communities by examining how
poetry, drama, travel-writing, and various forms of prose fiction
each negotiated the relationships between the local, national, and
global in distinct ways. Second, it demonstrates how viewing the
literature and culture of the long eighteenth century through a
broadly conceived lens of place brings to the foreground authors
typically considered 'minor' when seen through more traditional
aesthetic, cultural, or theoretical optics. Finally, it
contextualizes Romanticism's long-standing associations with the
local and the particular, suggesting that literary localism did not
originate in the Romantic era, but instead emerged from previous
literary and cultural explorations of space and place. Taken
together, the essays work to displace the nation-state as a central
category of literary and cultural analysis in eighteenth-century
studies.
Recovers a comparative literary history of migration This
collection initiates transnational, transcultural and
interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. Migrants are by definition liminal, and
many have existed historically in the murky spaces between nations,
regions or ethnicities. These essays together traverse the globe,
revealing the experiences -- real or imagined -- of eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to
soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers.
They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to
represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion
and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants
and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to
influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today
and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity
in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative. Key
Features Offers a comparative framework for understanding the
modern history of migration and the aesthetics of mobility
Foregrounds interdisciplinary debates about belonging, rights, and
citizenship Demonstrates how mobility unsettles the national,
cultural, racialized, and gendered frames we often use to organize
literary and historical study Brings together scholars from the US
and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences
and the emergence of modernity Emphasizes the globalism of the
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
Recovers a comparative literary history of migration This
collection initiates transnational, transcultural and
interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. Migrants are by definition liminal, and
many have existed historically in the murky spaces between nations,
regions or ethnicities. These essays together traverse the globe,
revealing the experiences -- real or imagined -- of eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to
soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers.
They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to
represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion
and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants
and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to
influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today
and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity
in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative. Key
Features Offers a comparative framework for understanding the
modern history of migration and the aesthetics of mobility
Foregrounds interdisciplinary debates about belonging, rights, and
citizenship Demonstrates how mobility unsettles the national,
cultural, racialized, and gendered frames we often use to organize
literary and historical study Brings together scholars from the US
and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences
and the emergence of modernity Emphasizes the globalism of the
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
Walter Scott's tales of chivalry and adventure inaugurated a
masculinized Scottish romance tradition that celebrated a sublime
and heroic version of Scotland. Nineteenth-century Scotswomen
responded to Scott's influence by establishing a counter-tradition
of unromantic or even anti-romantic representations of Scotland.
Their novels challenged the long-standing claim that Scotland
lacked any equivalent to the English realist novel. In turning from
the past to the present and from the sublimity of Scott's Highland
landscapes to farmhouses, factories, and suburban villas, Scottish
women writers brought romance to everyday life, illuminating the
magnificence of the mundane. Drawing on the evangelical discourses
emerging from the splintering of the Presbyterian Church in 1843,
they represented fiction as a form of spiritual comfort, an
antidote to the dreary monotony and petty frustrations of daily
existence. This volume introduces the previously overlooked
tradition of nineteenth-century Scottish women's writing, and
corrects previously male-dominated histories of the Scottish novel.
This study examines a network of writers that coalesced around the
publication of The History of Mary Prince (1831), which recounts
Prince's experiences as an enslaved person in the West Indies and
the events that brought her to seek assistance from the
Anti-Slavery Society in London. It focuses on the three writers who
produced the text - Mary Prince, Thomas Pringle, and Susanna Moodie
- with glances at their pro-slavery opponent, James MacQueen, and
their literary friends and relatives. The History connects the
Black Atlantic, a diasporic formation created through the colonial
trade in enslaved people, with the Anglophone Atlantic, created
through British migration and colonial settlement. It also
challenges Romantic ideals of authorship as an autonomous creative
act and the literary text as an aesthetically unified entity.
Collaborating with Prince on the History's publication impacted
Moodie's and Pringle's attitudes towards slavery and shaped their
own accounts of migration and settlement.
Nation and Migration provides a literary history for a nation that
still considers itself a land of immigrants. Most studies of
transatlantic literature focus primarily on what Stephen Spender
has described as the "love-hate relations" between the United
States and England, the imperial center of the British Atlantic
world. In contrast, this book explores the significant
contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of
a British Atlantic literature and culture. It argues that, by
allowing England to stand in for the British archipelago, recent
literary scholarship has oversimplified the processes through which
the new United States differentiated itself culturally from Britain
and underestimated the impact of migration on British nation
formation during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries. Scottish, Irish, and Welsh migrants brought with them to
the American colonies and early republic stories and traditions
very different from those shared by English settlers. Americans
looked to these stories for narratives of cultural and racial
origins through which to legitimate their new nation. Writers
situated in Britain's Celtic peripheries in turn drew on American
discourses of rights and liberties to assert the cultural
independence of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales from the English
imperial center. The stories that late eighteenth- and early
nineteenth-century Britons and Americans told about transatlantic
migration and settlement, whether from the position of migrant or
observer, reveal the tenuousness and fragility of Britain and the
United States as relatively new national entities. These stories
illustrate the dialectial relationship between nation and
migration.
What did it mean to be British, and more specifically to feel
British, in the century following the parliamentary union of
Scotland and England? Juliet Shields departs from recent accounts
of the Romantic emergence of nationalism by recovering the terms in
which eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers understood
nationhood. She argues that in the wake of the turmoil surrounding
the Union, Scottish writers appealed to sentiment, or refined
feeling, to imagine the nation as a community. They sought to
transform a Great Britain united by political and economic
interests into one united by shared sympathies, even while they
used the gendered and racial connotations of sentiment to
differentiate sharply between Scottish, English, and British
identities. By moving Scotland from the margins to the center of
literary history, the book explores how sentiment shaped both the
development of British identity and the literature within which
writers responded creatively to the idea of nationhood.
What did it mean to be British, and more specifically to feel
British, in the century following the parliamentary union of
Scotland and England? Juliet Shields departs from recent accounts
of the Romantic emergence of nationalism by recovering the terms in
which eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers understood
nationhood. She argues that in the wake of the turmoil surrounding
the Union, Scottish writers appealed to sentiment, or refined
feeling, to imagine the nation as a community. They sought to
transform a Great Britain united by political and economic
interests into one united by shared sympathies, even while they
used the gendered and racial connotations of sentiment to
differentiate sharply between Scottish, English, and British
identities. By moving Scotland from the margins to the center of
literary history, the book explores how sentiment shaped both the
development of British identity and the literature within which
writers responded creatively to the idea of nationhood.
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