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Though Robert Fergusson published only one collection of poems
during his lifetime, he was a fixture in the Scottish periodical
press. Rhona Brown explores Fergusson's poetic output in its
immediate periodical context, enabling a new understanding of
Fergusson's contribution to poetry that also enlarges on our
understanding of the Scottish periodical press. Focusing on the
development of his career in Walter Ruddiman's Weekly Magazine,
Brown situates Fergusson's poetry alongside contemporary events
that expose Fergusson's preoccupations with the frivolities of
fashion, theatrical culture, the economic status of Scottish
manufacture, and politics. At the same time, Brown offers
fascinating insights into the political climate of Enlightenment
Scotland and shows the Weekly Magazine in relationship to the
larger Scottish and British periodical milieus. She concludes by
exploring reactions to Fergusson's death in the British periodical
presses, arguing that contrary to critical consensus, the poet's
death was ignored neither by his own country nor by the larger
literary community.
Though Robert Fergusson published only one collection of poems
during his lifetime, he was a fixture in the Scottish periodical
press. Rhona Brown explores Fergusson's poetic output in its
immediate periodical context, enabling a new understanding of
Fergusson's contribution to poetry that also enlarges on our
understanding of the Scottish periodical press. Focusing on the
development of his career in Walter Ruddiman's Weekly Magazine,
Brown situates Fergusson's poetry alongside contemporary events
that expose Fergusson's preoccupations with the frivolities of
fashion, theatrical culture, the economic status of Scottish
manufacture, and politics. At the same time, Brown offers
fascinating insights into the political climate of Enlightenment
Scotland and shows the Weekly Magazine in relationship to the
larger Scottish and British periodical milieus. She concludes by
exploring reactions to Fergusson's death in the British periodical
presses, arguing that contrary to critical consensus, the poet's
death was ignored neither by his own country nor by the larger
literary community.
The definitive text of Allan Ramsay's poems, presenting his
uncollected works chronologically for the first time, with
comprehensive explanatory notes Offers the fullest edition of
Ramsay's poems to date, in which previously undiscovered texts
expand his known literary corpus Provides a definitive text of
Ramsay's poems in which uncollected works are presented
chronologically for the first time Detailed collation of texts
against all extant manuscript sources and relevant printed
editions, and comprehensive explanatory annotations offering new
insights into Ramsay's historical, political, literary and
religious contexts Allan Ramsay was central to all aspects of
Scottish literary culture in the eighteenth century, working
simultaneously in editing, playwriting, theatre management, song
collecting and bookselling, as well as founding and directing
Britain's first circulating library. It was, however, his own
original work as a poet which had a transformative influence on the
way in which Scottish literature would develop in the ensuing
decades and, indeed, centuries. Emerging as a published author in
the early 1710s, Ramsay built a remarkably prominent profile as a
poet of the Scots language whose work appealed to a diverse range
of readers, allowing him to produce prestigious subscribers'
editions of his poems in 1721 and 1728 and to continue as a poet
until his death in 1758. This definitive and ground-breaking
edition of Ramsay's poems reflects the fifty-year career of an
influential cultural and literary innovator, which will open new
avenues for research.
Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early
nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial,
sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic
social force, committed to improvement and national regeneration as
well as to sociability. The essays in this volume examine the
complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to
1830. Contributors address attitudes toward associations, their
meeting places and rituals, their links with the growth of the
professions and with literary culture, and the ways in which they
were structured by both class and gender. By widening the context
in which clubs and societies are set, the collection offers a new
framework for understanding them, bringing together the inheritance
of the Scottish past, the unique and cohesive polite culture of the
Scottish Enlightenment, and the broader context of associational
patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond.
During the last half of the eighteenth century, sensibility and its
less celebrated corollary sense were subject to constant variation,
critique, and contestation in ways that raise profound questions
about the formation of moral identities and communities. Beyond
Sense and Sensibility addresses those questions. What authority
does reason retain as a moral faculty in an age of sensibility? How
reliable or desirable is feeling as a moral guide or a test of
character? How does such a focus contribute to moral isolation and
elitism or, conversely, social connectedness and inclusion? How can
we distinguish between that connectedness and a disciplinary
socialization? How do insensible processes contribute to our moral
formation and action? What alternatives lie beyond the
anthropomorphism implied by sense and sensibility? Drawing
extensively on philosophical thought from the eighteenth century as
well as conceptual frameworks developed in the twenty-first
century, this volume of essays examines moral formation represented
in or implicitly produced by a range of texts, including Boswell's
literary criticism, Fergusson's poetry, Burney's novels,
Doddridge's biography, Smollett's novels, Charlotte Smith's
children's books, Johnson's essays, Gibbon's history, and
Wordsworth's poetry. The distinctive conceptual and textual breadth
of Beyond Sense and Sensibility yields a rich reassessment and
augmentation of the two perspectives summarized by the terms sense
and sensibility in later eighteenth-century Britain.
Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early
nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial,
sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic
social force, committed to improvement and national regeneration as
well as to sociability. The essays in this volume examine the
complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to
1830. Contributors address attitudes toward associations, their
meeting places and rituals, their links with the growth of the
professions and with literary culture, and the ways in which they
were structured by both class and gender. By widening the context
in which clubs and societies are set, the collection offers a new
framework for understanding them, bringing together the inheritance
of the Scottish past, the unique and cohesive polite culture of the
Scottish Enlightenment, and the broader context of associational
patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond.
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