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Steve Boardman and Julian Goodare, eds., Kings, Lords and Men in Scotland and Britain, 1300–1625: Essays in Honour of Jenny Wormald. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. Pp. 368. ISBN: 9780748691500. £75.00.
No full textSteve Boardman and Julian Goodare, eds., Kings, Lords and Men in
Scotland and Britain, 1300–1625: Essays in Honour of Jenny
Wormald. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. Pp. 368.
ISBN: 9780748691500. £75.00
Rosalind Carr, Gender and Enlightenment Culture in Eighteenth- Century Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. Pp. viii + 205. ISBN: 9780748646425. $70.00 USD
No full textRosalind Carr, Gender and Enlightenment Culture in Eighteenth-
Century Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
Pp. viii + 205. ISBN: 9780748646425. $70.00 US
Patricia Dennison, Stuart Eydmann, Annie Lyell, Michael Lynch and Simon Stranach, Painting the Town: Scottish Urban History in Art. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2013. Pp. 512. ISBN: 1908332042. $37.50 CAD.
No full textPatricia Dennison, Stuart Eydmann, Annie Lyell, Michael Lynch
and Simon Stranach, Painting the Town: Scottish Urban History in
Art. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2013. Pp. 512.
ISBN: 1908332042. $37.50 CAD
“Weary for the Heather and the Deer”: R. L. Stevenson Depicts the Scottish Diasporic Experience
No full textRobert Louis Stevenson is well known as a writer of popular Victorian adventures, yet much of his fiction is steeped in the cultural and historical preoccupations of Scotland. Texts such as Kidnapped (1886), The Master of Ballantrae (1889), and Catriona (1893) hinge upon culturally significant events such as the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the Appin Murder. These works also allude to the Highland Clearances of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the Battle of Culloden with its ensuing disarming acts—all occurrences which contributed to or comprised significant catalysts for the large-scale expulsion of Scots from their homeland. Certainly, themes of exile pervade Stevenson’s Scottish work and maintain a more liminal presence in his later South Seas fiction, and many of the author’s finest characters can be read as enactments of temporary or permanent expatriates whose real-life counterparts form a fascinating cross-section of the diasporic movement. This paper focuses on several of these characters, whose adventures are encoded into their corresponding texts as fictional re-constructions of a broader experience common to displaced Scots in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some are driven from Scotland as a direct result of economic hardship or domestic conflict, while others leave (at least temporarily) as a means of avoiding the political corruption and intrigue characteristic of the historical struggle for Scottish independence. Through characters like David Balfour, Alan Breck Stewart, James Durie, and Archie Weir, Stevenson explores the psychological ramifications of politically enforced and self-imposed exile, thus providing fictional extrapolations of the Scottish diasporic experience. These portrayals, infused with a the author’s own experiences abroad, offer fascinating microcosms which gesture towards the collective experience of a wide-scale network of displaced Scots in the Victorian world. An early version of this paper was presented at the NAVSA 2012 “Victorian Networks” conference hosted by the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Sharon Adams and Julian Goodare, eds., Scotland in the Age of Two Revolutions. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 253. ISBN 9781843839392. £65.00.
No full textSharon Adams and Julian Goodare, eds., Scotland in the Age of
Two Revolutions. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and
Social History. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2014. Pp. xiii
+ 253. ISBN 9781843839392. £65.00
Emily Wingfield, The Trojan Legend in Medieval Scottish Literature. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014. Pp. 246. ISBN 9781843843641. £50.00.
No full textEmily Wingfield, The Trojan Legend in Medieval Scottish Literature. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014. Pp. 246. ISBN 9781843843641. £50.00
Catherine Keene. Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots: A Life in Perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp.326. ISBN 978-0-230-34048-0 USD $95.
No full textCatherine Keene. Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots: A Life in Perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp.326. ISBN 978-0-230-34048-0 USD $95
Sarah Dunnigan and Suzanne Gilbert, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780748645398. £24.99.
No full textSarah Dunnigan and Suzanne Gilbert, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780748645398. £24.99
Rev. Duncan Blair, John A. MacPherson and Michael Linkletter, Fògradh, Fàisneachd, Filidheachd / Parting, Prophecy, Poetry. Sydney: Cape Breton University Press, 2013. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-1- 92749-243-7. CAD$14.95.
No full textRev. Duncan Blair, John A. MacPherson and Michael Linkletter. Fògradh, Fàisneachd, Filidheachd / Parting, Prophecy, Poetry. Sydney: Cape Breton University Press, 2013. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-1-92749-243-7. CAD$14.95
John Durkan. Scottish Schools and Schoolmasters, 1560-1633. The Scottish History Society. Cornwall: The Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. xvii+450. ISBN: 9780906245286. $76.00 CAD.
No full textJohn Durkan. Scottish Schools and Schoolmasters, 1560-1633. The Scottish History Society. Cornwall: The Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. xvii+450. ISBN: 9780906245286. $76.00 CAD