Title: Scotland, Ireland, and the romantic aesthetic /
Authors: Duff, David, 1962-; Jones, Catherine, 1970-
Publisher: Bucknell University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: English literature Scottish authors History and criticism; English literature Irish authors History and criticism; English literature History and criticism; Scottish literature History and criticism.; Comparative literature Irish and Scottish.; Comparative literature Scottish and Irish.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; National characteristics, Scottish, in literature.; National characteristics, Irish, in literature.; Nationalism and literature Colonies Great Britain History.; Romanticism.
Abstract: "In this comparative study of Scottish and Irish Romanticism, leading scholars examine literary relations between Scotland, Ireland, and England in the period 1760-1830, an age of political upheaval and constitutional change which witnessed the Irish Rebellion, the Act of Union, major internal migration, and the cultural repositioning of Ireland and Scotland within a newly conceived "United Kingdom." Adopting an "archipelagic" approach, contributors reveal how national and regional factors played a pivotal role in shaping the literary forms and cultural reception of Romantic aesthetics, with the Scottish-Irish binary serving as a ubiquitous point of reference. The essays extend existing work on the national tale and historical novel to identify previously unexplored areas of comparative inquiry such as national song, topical satire and verse romance, national painting, and travel literature. The book offers an exciting new map of the cultural geography of the Romantic era, and establishes a dynamic methodology for future comparative work."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Impulsive aeronauts and railway rationalists: Irish and Scottish in the romantic dictionary / Timothy Webb -- The aesthetics of paper money: national differences during the period of Enlightenment and Romanticism / Kevin Barry -- Robert Burns and national song / Hamish Mathison -- Inhabited solitudes: Wordsworth and Scotland, 1803 / Fiona Stafford -- Celtic Ireland and Celtic Scotland: ossianism and The wild Irish girl / Clíona Ó Gallchoir -- Public spirit: civic rights and national visions in The shade of Wallace / Nancy Moore Goslee -- Thomas Moore as Irish satirist / Jane Moore -- Poetry, patriotism, and literary institutions: the case of Scott and Byron / Caroline Franklin -- "Not absolutely a native nor entirely a stranger": Anne Grant and the Highland travelogue / Kenneth McNeil -- Scott, Wilkie, and romantic art / Catherine Jones -- Prince Hohenlohe's miracles: supernaturalism in the Irish public sphere / Claire Connolly -- Ireland, Scotland, and the materials of Romanticism / Ian Duncan.