Title: Gael and Lowlander in Scottish literature : cross-currents in Scottish writing in the nineteenth century /
Authors: MacLachlan, C. J. M.,; Renton, Ronald,
Year: 2015
Subjects: English literature Scottish authors History and criticism; Scottish literature History and criticism.; English literature Scottish authors; Literature; Scottish literature; Scottish Gaelic literature History and criticism.; Scotland In literature.; Scotland
Abstract: The nineteenth century saw the romanticisation of the Highlander, the rise of tartanry and the emergence of the modern Scottish tourist industry. It also witnessed the worst excesses of the Clearances and the beginnings of an exodus from the Highlands to the industrial cities and to the colonies. The fourteen essays in this volume examine the literary culture of Scotland - Highland and Lowland - during this transformational period, and explore its interactions and intersections.
Contents: Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Contacts and tensions : Highlands and Lowlands in the nineteenth century / Allan I. Macinnes -- The Poetry of Ailean Dall / Ronald Black -- Cultural crossings and dilemmas in Archibald Maclaren's playwriting / Ian Brown and Gioia Angeletti -- What Walter Scott can offer us today / Christopher Whyte -- James Hogg and the Highlands / Suzanne Gilbert -- The Noctes Ambrosianae and the Highlands / David Manderson -- 'That fairyland of Poesy' : the Highlands in early nineteenth-century women's fiction / Pam Perkins -- The unknown William Livingston (four songs) / Christopher Whyte -- Gaelic periodicals in the Lowlands : negotiating change / Sheila M. Kidd -- Màiri Mhòr : victim of circumstance or self-made celebrity? / Mark Wringe -- Niall MacLeòid, bard of Skye and Edinburgh / Meg Bateman -- Robert Louis Stevenson's Highlanders / Christopher MacLachlan -- Art, the Highlands and the Celtic revival Murdo Macdonald -- From Celtic revival to Scottish renaissance? / Douglas Gifford.