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Transatlanticism and "Natural Sympathy" in Christian Isobel Johnstone’s Clan-Albin: A National Tale (1815)
No full textIn the decades between Samuel Johnson’s and James Boswell’s tour of the Hebrides and the popular success of Walter Scott’s Waverley novels, a series of synecdochic associations gradually positioned the Highlands as the symbolic cornerstone of British romance and improvement discourses, while Scotland became an integral part of the British Empire. As the popular image of the Highlander had a distinctly martial resonance, transatlantic emigration became a national concern and contributed to the increase in attention paid to improvement in the Highlands. With Clan-Albin: A National Tale (1815), Christian Isobel Johnstone attempts to reconcile the popular imaginings of the Highlands as a pre-modern picturesque microcosm and a “nursery of soldiers” with the sociocultural effects of the Clearances, transforming a culturally and racially distinct Highland hamlet into a thriving pan-British community
Keith M. Brown and Alan R. MacDonald, eds., The History of the Scottish Parliament, vol. 3: Parliament in Context, 1235-1707.
No full textKeith M. Brown and Alan R. MacDonald, eds., The History of the Scottish Parliament, vol. 3: Parliament in Context, 1235-1707. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-7486-1486-8. £70.00
Keith M. Brown, Noble Power in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution.
No full textKeith M. Brown, Noble Power in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. Pp. 334. ISBN 978-0-7486-1298-7. £50.00
Steven Reid, Humanism and Calvinism: Andrew Melville and the Universities of Scotland, 1560-1625.
No full textSteven Reid, Humanism and Calvinism: Andrew Melville and the Universities of Scotland, 1560-1625. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. 328. ISBN 978-1-4094-0005-9. £65.00
Mark R.M. Towsey, Reading the Scottish Enlightenment: Books and their Readers in Provincial Scotland, 1750-1820
No full textMark R.M. Towsey, Reading the Scottish Enlightenment: Books and their Readers in Provincial Scotland, 1750-1820. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Pp. 361. ISBN 978-90-04-18432-9. EUR €101.00
Silke Stroh, Uneasy Subjects: Postcolonialism and Scottish Gaelic Poetry.
No full textSilke Stroh, Uneasy Subjects: Postcolonialism and Scottish
Gaelic Poetry. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011. Pp.
378. ISBN 978-90-420-3358-0. €76; USD$103
Richard J. Hill, Picturing Scotland through the Waverley Novels: Walter Scott and the Origins of the Victorian Illustrated Novel.
No full textRichard J. Hill, Picturing Scotland through the Waverley Novels: Walter Scott and the Origins of the Victorian Illustrated Novel . Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 236. ISBN 978-0-7546-6806-0. US$99.99
Richard Ambrosini and Richard Dury, eds., European Stevenson.
No full textRichard Ambrosini and Richard Dury, eds., European Stevenson. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. Pp. 287. ISBN 1-4438-1436-9. £39.99
John Marsden, Kings, Mormaers, Rebels: Early Scotland’s Other Royal Family.
No full textJohn Marsden, Kings, Mormaers, Rebels: Early Scotland’s Other Royal Family. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2010. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-1-9065566-19-7. £20.00
Edward J. Cowan & Lizanne Henderson, eds., A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland, 1000-1600.
No full textEdward J. Cowan & Lizanne Henderson, eds., A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland, 1000-1600. A History of Everyday Life in Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. Pp. 319. ISBN 978-0-7486-2157-6. £24.99