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Revisiting The History Of The De Doctrina Christiana Authorship Debate And Its Ramifications For Milton Scholarship: A Response To Falcone And Kerr, David V. Urban Dec 2020

Revisiting The History Of The De Doctrina Christiana Authorship Debate And Its Ramifications For Milton Scholarship: A Response To Falcone And Kerr, David V. Urban

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

This essay details the history of the De Doctrina Christiana authorship controversy, suggesting that the debate’s conclusion in favor of Miltonic provenance was declared prematurely. It considers Falcone’s and Kerr’s recent essays in light of the larger controversy and proposes that one consequence of the larger debate should be the liberty for scholars to analyze Milton’s theological presentations in his poetry apart from the specter of DDC.


Introduction: Allan Ramsay's Future, Murray Pittock, Craig Lamont Dec 2020

Introduction: Allan Ramsay's Future, Murray Pittock, Craig Lamont

Studies in Scottish Literature

Presents an overview of the new AHRC-funded edition of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay, and of related recent scholarly and community activity in relation to Ramsay's public recognition and heritage, both in the Pentlands area south of Edinburgh, near Penicuik and Carlops, and more broadly in Scottish literary history, specifically in relation to the origins of Scottish Romanticism.


'Some Few Miles From Edinburgh': Commemorating The Scenes Of The Gentle Shepherd In Ramsay Country, Craig Lamont Dec 2020

'Some Few Miles From Edinburgh': Commemorating The Scenes Of The Gentle Shepherd In Ramsay Country, Craig Lamont

Studies in Scottish Literature

Traces the history of Ramsay commemoration, from the obelisk at Penicuik with an inscription from 1759 onwards, and successive attempts to identify actual settings for scenes and incidents in his ballad opera The Gentle Shepherd, in illustrations (notably by David Allan for the Foulis edition of 1788), other editions and memoirs, and competing contributions by the ministers of rival parishes to the Statistical Account of Scotland, giving particular attention to the roles in the "battle over Ramsay country" of two local landowners, Alexander Fraser Tytler (Lord Woodhouselee) and Robert Brown of Newhall; providing maps and illustrations to clarify …


'Compylit In Latin': Allan Ramsay And Scoto-Latinity In The Eighteenth Century, Ralph Mclean Dec 2020

'Compylit In Latin': Allan Ramsay And Scoto-Latinity In The Eighteenth Century, Ralph Mclean

Studies in Scottish Literature

Discusses the importance and pervasiveness of Latin, including original Latin verse, in early 18th century Scotland, among Jacobites and in Ramsay's Edinburgh circle, with attention to the work of Archibald Pitcairne, Thomas Ruddiman, and later Robert Fergusson; examines Ramsay's own Scots translations of Horace and his use of the Horatian tradition, and looks also at translations from Ramsay into Latin by Alexander Fraser Tytler; and concludes that Ramsay's Scots poetry "helped to maintain" a Scottish link "to the classical past, by presenting the works of classical authors to new and growing audiences in Scotland in a language which was accessible …


'Some Pastoral Improvement' In The Gentle Shepherd: Mediation, Remediation, And Minority, Steve Newman Dec 2020

'Some Pastoral Improvement' In The Gentle Shepherd: Mediation, Remediation, And Minority, Steve Newman

Studies in Scottish Literature

This essay shows how in The Gentle Shepherd Allan Ramsay engages in the complex work of "pastoral improvement" on an individual and national scale and foresees--to a point--how his work will be received in the decades and even centuries to come. After situating his work within the uprising of the Galloway Levellers, pastoral, and the early work of agricultural improvement, I consider how the concept of improvement shapes the reception of his work in the Linley-Tickell production of the 1780s--including a surprising appearance from the Shakespearean forger, William Henry Ireland--and the key role The Gentle Shepherd plays in "The Young …


Series Editors' Preface To Ssl 46.2, Patrick Scott, Tony Jarrells Dec 2020

Series Editors' Preface To Ssl 46.2, Patrick Scott, Tony Jarrells

Studies in Scottish Literature

Introduction to special issue on Allan Ramsay; comment on cover illustration from the William Aikman-George White mezzotint portrait of Ramsay.


Allan Ramsay: Romanticism And Reception, Murray Pittock Dec 2020

Allan Ramsay: Romanticism And Reception, Murray Pittock

Studies in Scottish Literature

Provides a review and interpretation of Allan Ramsay's career and reputation, and of scholarly and critical response to his work, exploring "the foundational nature of his contribution to the language of Scottish literature," reaching a wider audience, for Scots, his dominant role in the history of Scottish song, and the pivotal role of his writing, especially his ballad-opera The Gentle Shepherd, in the formation of Scottish romanticism, and of the wider romantic movement.


Networks Of Sociability In Allan Ramsay's The Fair Assembly, Rhona Brown Dec 2020

Networks Of Sociability In Allan Ramsay's The Fair Assembly, Rhona Brown

Studies in Scottish Literature

Discusses the background, publication history, and significance of Allan Ramsay's poem The Fair Assembly (1723), about an elite dance gathering in Edinburgh, the social connections of its aristocratic patrons ("Directresses"), and its political and cultural implications, especially in connection with the continuing role of Jacobite and other anti-Whig and anti-Presbyterian sentiment in the nation's capital.


Mapping Changes To The Songs In The Gentle Shepherd, 1725-1788, Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland Dec 2020

Mapping Changes To The Songs In The Gentle Shepherd, 1725-1788, Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland

Studies in Scottish Literature

Examines the varying ways in which the songs in Allan Ramsay's ballad-opera The Gentle Shepherd were published between the 170s and the 1780s, noting variation in how particular songs were titled, in which songs were included and how they were placed within the dramatic text, in which tunes were used for which song-texts, and in how words were related to music in editions providing both. The discussion is supported by extensive tables and lists of 18th century Ramsay editions, and illustrated with transcriptions of the music in two editions. Concludes that the addition of the music in later editions served …


Contributors To Ssl 46.2 Dec 2020

Contributors To Ssl 46.2

Studies in Scottish Literature

Brief biographical notes on contributors


Methodising Scots: The Cases Of Allan Ramsay & Thomas Ruddiman, Jeremy J. Smith Dec 2020

Methodising Scots: The Cases Of Allan Ramsay & Thomas Ruddiman, Jeremy J. Smith

Studies in Scottish Literature

Examines the linguistic issues facing editors of two 18th century Scottish editors, Allan Ramsay and Thomas Ruddiman, in modifying or standardizing the language in earlier Scottish poetic manuscripts, arguing that "the editorial process is not—and never has been—“neutral” or “objective” but is rather a hermeneutic act constrained by contemporary conditions of publication and intended audience," and that Ramsay and Ruddiman, like modern editors, were "constrained in quite delicate ways by their historical setting."


"Slain Ye Shall Be": Eschatological Morality And The House Of Feanor In Tolkien's The Silmarillion, Ashley Anteau Dec 2020

"Slain Ye Shall Be": Eschatological Morality And The House Of Feanor In Tolkien's The Silmarillion, Ashley Anteau

Honors Projects

This thesis expands on existing research and analysis of the eschatology of J. R. R. Tolkien’s invented mythology, with a critical analysis of how it relates to morality and the overarching exploration of good and evil, primarily in The Silmarillion. By analyzing Tolkien’s medieval and spiritual influences, as well as Tolkien’s unfinished works published posthumously by Christopher Tolkien, it explores the effect of the relationship between morality and mortality on the emotional core of Tolkien’s work. It offers new insights into the text by engaging especially with the often overlooked story of the sons of Feanor, and how this story …


Poetry And Song In The Works Of J.R.R. Tolkien (2018), Ed. By Anna Milon, Kristine A. Swank Dec 2020

Poetry And Song In The Works Of J.R.R. Tolkien (2018), Ed. By Anna Milon, Kristine A. Swank

Journal of Tolkien Research

Book review by Kris Swank of Poetry and Song in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Seminar 2017 (2018), edited by Anna Milon.


The Novelist And The Critics: Frances Burney's Manuscript Corrections And Additions To The Wanderer, Or, Female Difficulties, Robert L. Mack Dec 2020

The Novelist And The Critics: Frances Burney's Manuscript Corrections And Additions To The Wanderer, Or, Female Difficulties, Robert L. Mack

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Through The Floors Of Perception: Huxley, Benjamin, And Drugs, Rajeev S. Patke Dec 2020

Through The Floors Of Perception: Huxley, Benjamin, And Drugs, Rajeev S. Patke

Journal X

No abstract provided.


A "Black, Black, Black Man": Aaron's Represented Blackness On Stage And Screen, Kevin Crawford Dec 2020

A "Black, Black, Black Man": Aaron's Represented Blackness On Stage And Screen, Kevin Crawford

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Good Manners And Bad Treasons: Scottish Jacobite Women And The British Authorities In The Rebellion Of 1715, Margaret Sankey Dec 2020

Good Manners And Bad Treasons: Scottish Jacobite Women And The British Authorities In The Rebellion Of 1715, Margaret Sankey

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Jameson, Conrad, And The Dialectic Of Utopia And Ideology, Chris Foss Dec 2020

Jameson, Conrad, And The Dialectic Of Utopia And Ideology, Chris Foss

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Who Is Afraid Of The Pardoner?, Shannon Reed Dec 2020

Who Is Afraid Of The Pardoner?, Shannon Reed

Journal X

No abstract provided.


The Bastion Of Sensation: Stationing The Self In The Poetry Of Seamus Heaney, Srikanth Reddy Dec 2020

The Bastion Of Sensation: Stationing The Self In The Poetry Of Seamus Heaney, Srikanth Reddy

Journal X

No abstract provided.


"By Gift Of My Chaste Body": Female Chastity And Exchange Value In Measure For Measure And A Woman Killed With Kindness, Barbara Sebek Dec 2020

"By Gift Of My Chaste Body": Female Chastity And Exchange Value In Measure For Measure And A Woman Killed With Kindness, Barbara Sebek

Journal X

No abstract provided.


The Deconstructure Of The Canterbury Tales, Elizabeth Scala Dec 2020

The Deconstructure Of The Canterbury Tales, Elizabeth Scala

Journal X

No abstract provided.


"Straight From Your Heart": Convention, Sincerity, And Sexuality In Donne's Early Verse Letters, Ben Saunders Dec 2020

"Straight From Your Heart": Convention, Sincerity, And Sexuality In Donne's Early Verse Letters, Ben Saunders

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Hamlet: Like Mother, Like Son, R. Allen Shoaf Dec 2020

Hamlet: Like Mother, Like Son, R. Allen Shoaf

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Economic Conflict And Collusion In Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice, Anne M. Gogela Dec 2020

Economic Conflict And Collusion In Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice, Anne M. Gogela

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Rethinking The Canon: Ulysses: Modernist — Postmodernist — Minor, Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva Dec 2020

Rethinking The Canon: Ulysses: Modernist — Postmodernist — Minor, Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Sighting Utopia In The Lens: Reading Praxis In Johannes Kepler And Margaret Cavendish, Elizabeth A. Spiller Dec 2020

Sighting Utopia In The Lens: Reading Praxis In Johannes Kepler And Margaret Cavendish, Elizabeth A. Spiller

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Othello's Monsters: Kenneth Burke, Deleuze And Guattari, And The Impulse To Narrative In Shakespeare, Bruce Boehrer Dec 2020

Othello's Monsters: Kenneth Burke, Deleuze And Guattari, And The Impulse To Narrative In Shakespeare, Bruce Boehrer

Journal X

No abstract provided.


"Blood Will Have Blood": Power, Performance, And Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble, Cristina León Alfar Dec 2020

"Blood Will Have Blood": Power, Performance, And Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble, Cristina León Alfar

Journal X

No abstract provided.


The Irish Vampire: Dracula, Parnell, And The Troubled Dreams Of Nationhood, Michael Valdez Moses Dec 2020

The Irish Vampire: Dracula, Parnell, And The Troubled Dreams Of Nationhood, Michael Valdez Moses

Journal X

No abstract provided.