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The Making and Breaking of a Comital Family: Malcolm Fleming, First Earl of Wigtown, and Thomas Fleming, Second Earl of Wigtown, Part 1: The Making of an Earl: Malcolm Fleming
No full textThe Making and Breaking of a Comital Family: Malcolm Fleming, First Earl of Wigtown, and Thomas Fleming, Second Earl of Wigtown, Part 1: The Making of an Earl: Malcolm Flemin
Philippe Laplace, ed., Environmental and Ecological Readings. Nature, Human and Post Human Dimensions in Scottish Literature & Arts (XVIII-XXI c.)
No full textPhilippe Laplace, ed., Environmental and Ecological Readings. Nature, Human and Post Human Dimensions in Scottish Literature & Arts (XVIII-XXI c.). Annales Littéraires de l’Université de Franche-Comté, n° 947 and Recherches Interdisciplinaires et Transculturelles, n°89. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté. 2015. Pp. 308. ISBN 9782848675305. €16
Heather Sparling, Reeling Roosters and Dancing Ducks. Sydney, Nova Scotia: Cape Breton University Press, 2014. Pp. 356. ISBN: 9781927492987. $19.95 CAD.
No full textHeather Sparling, Reeling Roosters and Dancing Ducks. Sydney, Nova Scotia: Cape Breton University Press, 2014. Pp. 356. ISBN: 9781927492987. $19.95 CAD
Scottish Diaspora Review Essay
No full textTanja Bueltmann, Andrew Hinson and Graeme Morton, The Scottish Diaspora. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. Pp. 272. ISBN 9780748648924. CAD24.99; Murray Stewart Leith and Duncan Sim, eds. The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780748681419. CAD$40.0
Kyle Hughes. The Scots in Victorian and Edwardian Belfast: A Study in Elite Migration. Scottish Historical Review Monograph Series. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. Pp. 236. ISBN 9780748679928. GBP £55.00.
No full textKyle Hughes. The Scots in Victorian and Edwardian Belfast: A Study in Elite Migration. Scottish Historical Review Monograph Series. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. Pp. 236. ISBN9780748679928. GBP £55.00
Gaelic Organizations in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Ontario
No full textThis article offers a brief summary of the history and activities of Gaelic organizations in Ontario in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines how Ontario Gaels thought about themselves as a distinct group, what particular people considered to be valuable or disposable aspects of their ethnicity, how they negotiated between their ancestral inheritance and the expectations of Angloconformity, and how contemporary values and events conditioned internal and external perceptions. It concludes that previous commentary about Scottish and Gaelic organizations in Ontario contrasts with the Gaelic texts produced by and about these groups
Crime and Punishment in Early-Modern Scotland: The Secular Courts of Restoration Argyllshire, 1660-1688
No full textThe study of crime in early-modern Scotland remains under-developed, some strong local and thematic studies notwithstanding, and Scottish historians have not so far been able properly to assimilate the theoretical and methodological advances pioneered by scholars working on other jurisdictions, particularly England. This article seeks to begin addressing that gap through a detailed micro-study of crime and its punishment in Argyllshire during the Restoration (1660-88), rooted in systematic analysis of surviving court records. The results add weight to the growing historiographical evidence against traditional notions of a stark Highland/Lowland divide in the seventeenth century, while also outlining patterns of secular criminality and criminal justice which could form the basis of further research
Christopher Meir, Scottish Cinema: Texts and Contexts. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Pp. 216. ISBN 978071908635-9. $105.00 CAD
No full textChristopher Meir, Scottish Cinema: Texts and Contexts. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Pp. 216. ISBN 9780719086359. $105.00 CA
An exploration of place and its representations: an intertextual/ dialogical reading of the photographs of AB Ovenstone and the novel Gillespie by John MacDougall Hay.
No full text“An intertextual/ dialogical reading of place through photography and fiction”
The article is an exploration of place and its representations based on the intertextual reading of a series of photographs (1880-82) of Tarbert, Loch Fyne by Andrew Begbie Ovenstone (1851-1935) and the dialogical reading of a novel, Gillespie (1914), by John MacDougall Hay (1881-1919) which is set in Tarbert. The proposed article is inspired by a sense that a semiotic approach to the subject will reveal far more than has been discovered within the tradition of hermeneutics and patrimony and that much will be gained by a study of the contrast between written and visual signifiers.
The article raises questions about the (unexamined) coded readings of place especially in relation to the photograph, and the lack of an adequately theorized tradition for the novel. The literary text is well known - if not well understood - but the images are from a rare, unpublished, private collection of photographs from Scotland, India and the furthest reaches of Empire (Ovenstone was the Atlantic Freight Manager of Anchor Line Ltd, the Glasgow shipping company).
The paper emphasizes the need for the use of codes to decipher the texts. When we “read” the photographs we need to be aware of the intertextual relationship between the photograph and the landscape painting tradition as well as the common practice of the created tableau – there is then overlaid upon the image the sense of a set of conventions, a system which operates much like a language. We are able to discover through the notion of the “long quotation from appearances” the potential for more complex “synchronic” readings. Likewise, in the case of Gillespie, the novel operates within a genre which determines a “reading”. When we are aware of a code, we become aware of the way that Hay manoeuvres adroitly to thwart the reader’s best efforts to settle upon a preferred reading – especially one shaped by an authoritative narrator - which thereby allows for the genuine experience of “heteroglossia” to emerge. The notion of truth in Gillespie is interrogated in the light of Heidegger’s essay “The Origins of a Work of Art” in order that the relationship between representation and reality be clarified
Robert Anderson, Mark Freeman, and Lindsay Paterson, Eds. The Edinburgh History of Education in Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. Pp. 384. ISBN: 9780748679157. CAD$200.00
No full textRobert Anderson, Mark Freeman, and Lindsay Paterson, Eds. The Edinburgh History of Education in Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. Pp. 384. ISBN: 9780748679157. CAD$200.0