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Books Received, John T. Knox, Patrick G. Scott
Books Received, John T. Knox, Patrick G. Scott
Studies in Scottish Literature
Publication details and short descriptions of over thirty recently-published books in Scottish literature and related fields.
On Vernacular Scottishness And Its Limits: Devolution And The Spectacle Of "Voice", Scott Hames
On Vernacular Scottishness And Its Limits: Devolution And The Spectacle Of "Voice", Scott Hames
Studies in Scottish Literature
This essay asks why vernacular cultural expression has been so central to discussion of Scottish national autonomy, traces the literary and political contours of vernacular discourse in the period of Scottish devolution, and concludes with a provisional sketch of three "vernacularities" (democratic, romantic and identitarian) and with reflections on how literary criticism might move beyond the "representative” paradigms of vernacular voice to engage with voice as a principle of agency and action.
Court Poetry In Late Medieval England And Scotland, By Anthony Hasler, Holly A. Crocker
Court Poetry In Late Medieval England And Scotland, By Anthony Hasler, Holly A. Crocker
Studies in Scottish Literature
Review of Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland, by Anthony Hasler.
Robert Burns, James Johnson, And The Manuscript Of "The German Lairdie", Patrick Scott
Robert Burns, James Johnson, And The Manuscript Of "The German Lairdie", Patrick Scott
Studies in Scottish Literature
Reports, illustrates, and assesses a fragment of manuscript music now in the G. Ross Roy Collection at the University of South Carolina, for Burns's song "The German Lairdie," headed in Burns's hand, and possibly with the music in his hand also. A note with the fragment, which was exhibited as Burns's autograph in 1896, states that it had been sent by Burns to the Edinburgh editor and publisher James Johnson, for inclusion in his Scots Musical Museum.
Divergent Authenticities: Editing Scottish Literary Texts: Introduction: How Editorial Theories Have Changed, Patrick G. Scott
Divergent Authenticities: Editing Scottish Literary Texts: Introduction: How Editorial Theories Have Changed, Patrick G. Scott
Studies in Scottish Literature
Reviews changing approaches to the editing of Scottish literary texts, from the dominance of the Greg-Bowers theory of copytext to the emergence of the Social Text theory associated with Mackenzie and McGann; illustrates the developments from a variety of major Scottish authors and scholarly editions (specifically Thomas Carlyle and Walter Scott); and concludes by discussing the critical implications of differing approaches to editing two frequently-taught Scottish works, Robert Burns's "Tam o' Shanter" and Hugh MacDiarmid's A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.
The Ssl Symposium On Editing: A Commentary, Ian Duncan
The Ssl Symposium On Editing: A Commentary, Ian Duncan
Studies in Scottish Literature
Reviews and comments on the preceding essays in the SSL Symposium on Editing Scottish Literary Texts, setting them in the wider context of critical discussion, responding to some of the earlier comments comparing the recent collected editions of Walter Scott and James Hogg, and arguing that the "authentically democratic" work of making a fuller range of Scottish literary texts available moves critical discussion forward from the "tedious zero-sum game" of debating a static canon.
The Missing Manuscript Of Robert Burns's "Patriarch" Letter, Gerard Carruthers, Pauline Mackay
The Missing Manuscript Of Robert Burns's "Patriarch" Letter, Gerard Carruthers, Pauline Mackay
Studies in Scottish Literature
Reports the discovery of a previously-lost early transcription of a Burns letter, held by a private owner in Dumfries, records its textual variants, and discusses its relation to the previously-known versions on which editors have had to rely.
Prelims, Preface To Ssl 39: G. Ross Roy And Susan Manning, Patrick G. Scott, Anthony Jarrells
Prelims, Preface To Ssl 39: G. Ross Roy And Susan Manning, Patrick G. Scott, Anthony Jarrells
Studies in Scottish Literature
Preface includes information on usage of the digital version of Studies in Scottish Literature in its first year, together with short tributes to two board members who recently died, the journal's founder G. Ross Roy, and Prof. Susan Manning of the University of Edinburgh.
G. Ross Roy As Editor, A Tribute, Carol Mcguirk
G. Ross Roy As Editor, A Tribute, Carol Mcguirk
Studies in Scottish Literature
Reviews the fifty-year history of the journal Studies in Scottish Literature since 1963 and pays tribute to the editorial work of its founder G. Ross Roy (1924-2013), sole editor of the journal 1963-2008, drawing attention to the range of subjects and approaches he welcomed and to his encouragement of women scholars.
Editing The Letters Of A Scottish Author, Gillian Hughes
Editing The Letters Of A Scottish Author, Gillian Hughes
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses the issues and techniques in finding, researching, transcribing, editing, formatting and annotating the letters of a nineteenth-century Scottish author, drawing on experience in editing The Collected Letters of James Hogg, 3 vols. (Edinburgh University Press, 2004-2008).
The Renaissance Uses Of A Medieval Seneca: Murder, Stoicism, And Gender In The Marginalia Of Glasgow Hunter 297, Theo Van Heijnsbergen
The Renaissance Uses Of A Medieval Seneca: Murder, Stoicism, And Gender In The Marginalia Of Glasgow Hunter 297, Theo Van Heijnsbergen
Studies in Scottish Literature
Examines, transcribes, and annotates the extensive marginalia in a medieval manuscript of Seneca's tragedies made by Sir William Sinclair of Mey (1582-1643), exploring some of the links between the original text, the marginal additions, the events of Sinclair's life, and the culture of Renaissance Scotland.
For "The Prosperity Of Scotland": Mediating National Improvement In The Scots Magazine, 1739-49, Alex Benchimol
For "The Prosperity Of Scotland": Mediating National Improvement In The Scots Magazine, 1739-49, Alex Benchimol
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses the early years the the Scots Magazine, founded in Edinburgh in 1739, examining the aims of its publishers, and the development of its political and economic views before and after the Jacobite Rising of 1745-46, in light of contemporary Scottish ideas of social and economic improvement.
The Modern Athenians: The Edinburgh Review In The Knowledge Economy Of The Early Nineteenth Century, William Christie
The Modern Athenians: The Edinburgh Review In The Knowledge Economy Of The Early Nineteenth Century, William Christie
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses the role of intellectual periodicals, specifically the edinburgh Review, in creating and representing the interdisciplinary knowledge economy of early 19th century Edinburgh, and proposes the term "the Periodical Enlightenment" to represent this distinctive phase in Scottish culture.
"And The Roadside Fire": Portrayals Of Home Through National Song In Stevenson's Scottish Adventures, Christy Danelle Di Frances
"And The Roadside Fire": Portrayals Of Home Through National Song In Stevenson's Scottish Adventures, Christy Danelle Di Frances
Studies in Scottish Literature
This article considers allusions to popular Scottish song in Stevenson’s work, especially in Kidnapped, to interrogate Stevenson’s broader configuration of home, as both personal and engaged with the Scottish national consciousness, exploring how he preserves home within his modern adventure aesthetic through reference to popular Scottish song, ballads and folk songs.
Sir Walter Scott And John Clare: An Unpublished Letter, Ian D. Kane
Sir Walter Scott And John Clare: An Unpublished Letter, Ian D. Kane
Studies in Scottish Literature
Reports an autograph letter written by Walter Scott, now in the G. Ross Roy Collection at the University of South Carolina, dated May 31, 1820, and sent to Captain Markham Shirwill, responding to Shirwill's request that Scott foster Clare's writing career; along with a transcription and illustration of the letter, the note discusses what was previously known about this incident and its context based on the letters of Clare.
Textual Messages: Scholarly Editions And Their Role In Literary Criticism, Alison Lumsden
Textual Messages: Scholarly Editions And Their Role In Literary Criticism, Alison Lumsden
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses the editing of Scottish literary texts, specifically recent editions of Walter Scott and James Hogg, and argues that textual investigation is not simply technical and preliminary but an integral part of literary criticism.
A "Quarrell Sett Out In Metre": Towards A New Edition Of Scottish Reformation Satirical Literature, Tricia A. Mcelroy
A "Quarrell Sett Out In Metre": Towards A New Edition Of Scottish Reformation Satirical Literature, Tricia A. Mcelroy
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses the issues of definition and genre in preparing a new edition for the Scottish Text Society of satirical poems (and prose) from the Scottish Reformation period, and also comments on decisions about editing Scottish Renaissance manuscript poetry.
Wraiths, Rhetoric, And "The Sin Of Rhyme"" The Shaping Of The Burns Of The Kilmarnock Edition, Kenneth G. Simpson
Wraiths, Rhetoric, And "The Sin Of Rhyme"" The Shaping Of The Burns Of The Kilmarnock Edition, Kenneth G. Simpson
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses rhetorical self-consciousness in letters and poems of the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796), in contrast to earlier simplified romantic portrayals, and draws a comparison between Burns and Montaigne.
Deficiencies: Mental Disability And The Imagination In Scott's Waverley Novels, Colin Carman
Deficiencies: Mental Disability And The Imagination In Scott's Waverley Novels, Colin Carman
Studies in Scottish Literature
Argues that Walter Scott's novels, especially Waverley and The Heart of Midlothian, represent a shift in Anglo-scottish attitudes towards the mentally ill, and that mental disability, operating in Scott's novels under the guises of idiocy and insanity, was integral to Scott’s articulations of the romantic imagination.
Preventing Revolution: Cato Street, Bonnymuir, And Cathkin, John Gardner
Preventing Revolution: Cato Street, Bonnymuir, And Cathkin, John Gardner
Studies in Scottish Literature
Argues, from a range of evidence including popular poetry and woodcuts, that popular risings in 1820 in Scotland, England, and Ireland were produced as a coordinated strategy by central government in the aftermath of Peterloo to instigate (through agents provocateurs) local popular uprisings and then brutally suppress them, with show trials and public executions, in order to deter or forestall larger social unrest or revolution.
Prelims, Prefatory Note To Ssl 37, Preface To Robert Burns & Friends, Patrick G. Scott, Anthony Jarrells, Kenneth G. Simpson
Prelims, Prefatory Note To Ssl 37, Preface To Robert Burns & Friends, Patrick G. Scott, Anthony Jarrells, Kenneth G. Simpson
Studies in Scottish Literature
Prefatory note by Patrick Scott and Tony Jarrells, preface by Patrick Scott and Kenneth Simpson
Footnoted Folklore: Robert Burns's "Hallowe'en", Corey E. Andrews
Footnoted Folklore: Robert Burns's "Hallowe'en", Corey E. Andrews
Studies in Scottish Literature
Examines Robert Burns's poem "Hallowe'en," first published in the Kilmarnock edition (1786), both in relation to its background in Scottish folklore and in terms of the way Burns presented it on the page, with numerous footnotes, arguing that "throughout the poem Burns acts as a participant observer in the classic anthropological sense."