The Prose of Allan Ramsay
1st Edition
Published on 5. March 2024
344 pages
978-1-3995-0698-4 (ISBN)
Description
Transforming academic and popular understanding of this pivotal but, until now, largely under-researched literary figure, this volume offers the first full and consistent edition of Allan Ramsay's prose. The volume contains all extant prose writings, from both manuscript and print sources. As well as all known letters, the volume includes prefaces, dedications and advertisements for Ramsay's major collections. It also contains Ramsay's anonymously-published Some Few Hints in Defence of Dramatical Entertainments, the full text of his influential collection of Scots Proverbs and significant prose from manuscript sources, including Ramsay's account of Edinburgh's Porteous Riots in April 1736 and notes on contemporary plays. In these works, we see Ramsay's consistent and steadfast commitment to preserving Scottish literary culture, and gain a privileged insight into Ramsay's personality, his priorities, ambitions and core beliefs.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Illustrations
7 black and white illustrations
File size
3,07 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-0698-4 (9781399506984)
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Rhona Brown | Craig Lamont
The Prose of Allan Ramsay
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03/2024
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- General Editor's Preface
- Biography of Allan Ramsay
- Introduction to Prose
- TEXT
- List of Letters
- Letters
- Miscellaneous Prose Advertisement, The Battel (1716)
- Preface, Tartana (1718)
- Dedication and Advertisement, Christ's Kirk on the Green (Edinburgh: William Adams, 1718)
- Advertisement, Christ's Kirk on the Green (Edinburgh: Ruddiman, 1718)
- Dedication, Robert, Richy and Sandy (1721)
- Advertisement, Poems (1721)
- Advertisement 2, Poems (1721)
- Dedication and Preface, Poems (1721)
- List of Fables (c.1722)
- Advertisement, Fables and Tales (1722)
- Preface, The Fair Assembly (1723)
- Dedication, 'The Pleasures of Improvments in Agriculture Plant Gard' (1723)
- Dedication and Preface, The Ever Green (1724)
- Preface, The Gentle Shepherd (1725)
- Some Few Hints In Defence of Dramatical Entertainments (c.1728)
- Dedication, Poems (1728)
- Preface, Tea-Table Miscellany (Dublin, 1729)
- A Collection of Scots Proverbs, More Complete and Correct than Any Heretofore Published (1737)
- Notes on Sir David Lindsay's Language (1724-43)
- Notes on Theatre in Edinburgh (c. early 1730s)
- Undated Prose
- The Court
- Notes on The Fair Quaker of Deal
- Notes on The Doating Lovers
- Notes on The Basset Table
- Notes on The Artful Husband
- Notes on The Apparition
- Appendix 1: Habberdashery account of Allan Ramsay to Sir Robert Menzies (1718)
- Appendix 2: Deed of Corporation of the Edinburgh Academy of St. Luke (1729)
- Appendix 3: The Ramsay and Cooper Rebus (c.1725-38)
- NOTES
- Letters
- Miscellaneous Prose
- Undated Prose
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Glossary
- Bibliography
