Kirkyard Romanticism
Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Published on 30. September 2024
208 pages
978-1-4744-8344-5 (ISBN)
Description
The early nineteenth century saw the dead take on new life in Scottish literature; sometimes quite literally. This book brings together a range of Scottish Romantic texts, identifying a shared interest an imagined national dead. It argues that the publications of Edinburgh-based publisher William Blackwood were the crucible for this new form of Scottish cultural nationalism. Scottish Romantic authors including James Hogg, John Wilson and John Galt, use the Romantic kirkyard to engage with, and often challenge, contemporary ideas of modernity. The book also explores the extensive ripples that this cultural moment generated across Scottish, British and wider Anglophone literary sphere over the next century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
0,37 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-8344-5 (9781474483445)
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09/2024
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: 'I was a "Young Mortality"'
- 1. Intertextuality, Tradition and the Kirkyard Forefathers
- 2. 'In the burial ground of his native parish': Romancing the Kirkyard
- 3. The Suicide's Grave: Suicide, Civilisation and Community
- 4. The Doctor and the Dead: Anatomy, Feeling and Genre
- 5. 'Burking, Bill and Cholera': Death, Mobility and National Epidemic
- 6. 'To lay our bones within the bosom of our native soil': The Kirkyard in the Age of Migrants
- Bibliography
- Index
