Writing and Orality: Nationality, Culture, and Nineteenth-Century Scottish Fiction

Fielding, Penny

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“…But they also equated illiteracy with social inferiority, and sought to reinterpret Highland stories through the disfiguring lens of sentimentality. 40 The folklorists took sceptical stances, and there was an implicit assumption that their readers shared this scepticism; ghosts were things other people believed in. Introducing one ghost story, the English antiquary Francis Grose declared: 'As the relation will enliven the dullness of antiquarian disquisition, I will here relate it, as it was told me by an honest woman […] who, I will be sworn from her manner, believed every syllable of it.'…”

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The Evolution of Haunted Space in Scotland

McGill

2022

Gothic Studies

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This article explores the popularisation of the concept of haunted space in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland. While earlier ghost stories were usually about the haunting of people, the rise of Gothic and Romantic literary aesthetics fuelled a new interest in both the Scottish landscape, and the dramatic potential of lurking spectres. Amid the upheaval of industrialisation and the Highland Clearances, and in a period when Scots were still wrestling with the implications of the 1707 Union, authors recorded stories of wandering ghosts as part of a broader movement to fashion a distinctive identity rooted in a specific cultural context. Against the frequently broad scope of academic literature on spectrality, this article draws attention to the crucial significance of contextual nuances and specific historical and social circumstances. In particular, it points to the fraught politics of loss and repossession in relation to the Highlands’ history of depopulation and modernisation, casting a fresh light on the historical events that have given shape to Scottish haunted space.

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The Evolution of Haunted Space in Scotland

McGill

2022

Gothic Studies

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Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745–1820

Shields

2010

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What did it mean to be British, and more specifically to feel British, in the century following the Parliamentary Union of Scotland and England? Juliet Shields departs from recent accounts of the Romantic emergence of nationalism by recovering the terms in which eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century writers understood nationhood. She argues that, in the wake of the turmoil surrounding the Union, Scottish writers appealed to sentiment, or refined feeling, to imagine the nation as a community. They sought to transform a Great Britain united by political and economic interests into one united by shared sympathies, even while they used the gendered and racial connotations of sentiment to differentiate sharply between Scottish, English, and British identities. By moving Scotland from the margins to the center of literary history, the book explores how sentiment shaped both the development of British identity and the literature within which writers responded creatively to the idea of nationhood.

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Authenticity Effects: The Work of Fiction in Romantic Scotland

Duncan¹

2003

South Atlantic Quarterly

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Writing and Orality: Nationality, Culture, and Nineteenth-Century Scottish Fiction

Cited by 14 publications

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The Evolution of Haunted Space in Scotland

The Evolution of Haunted Space in Scotland

Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745–1820

Authenticity Effects: The Work of Fiction in Romantic Scotland

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