Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 10
SCOTLAND IN ROMANTICISM......Page 11
ROMANTICISM IN SCOTLAND......Page 16
SCOTLAND AND THE BORDERS OF ROMANTICISM......Page 20
NOTES......Page 25
CHAPTER 1 Coleridge, Hume, and the chains of the Romantic imagination......Page 30
NOTES......Page 45
CHAPTER 2 The pathos of abstraction: Adam Smith, Ossian, and Samuel Johnson......Page 48
NOTES......Page 64
CHAPTER 3 Antiquarianism, the Scottish Science of Man, and the emergence of modern disciplinarity......Page 67
NOTES......Page 83
CHAPTER 4 Melancholy, memory, and the “narrative situation” of history in post-Enlightenment Scotland......Page 87
NOTES......Page 100
CHAPTER 5 Scott, the Scottish Enlightenment, and Romantic Orientalism......Page 104
NOTES......Page 119
CHAPTER 6 Walter Scott’s Romantic postmodernity......Page 123
NOTES......Page 139
CHAPTER 7 Putting down the Rising......Page 140
NOTES......Page 147
CHAPTER 8 Joanna Baillie stages the nation......Page 149
NOTES......Page 157
CHAPTER 9 William Wordsworth and William Cobbett: Scotch travel and British reform......Page 163
NOTES......Page 177
LOCAL INSCRIPTIONS......Page 180
ZONAL REPRESENTATIONS......Page 187
NOTES......Page 194
CHAPTER 11 At “sang about”: Scottish song and the challenge to British culture......Page 198
NOTES......Page 210
CHAPTER 12 Romantic spinstrelsy: Anne Bannerman and the sexual politics of the ballad......Page 214
SPINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER......Page 216
LIFE AND WORK OF ANNE BANNERMAN......Page 218
“THE DARK LADIE”......Page 219
“THE PROPHETESS OF THE ORACLE OF SEÄM”......Page 222
THE SCHOOL OF LEWIS......Page 225
CONCLUSION......Page 229
NOTES......Page 231
CHAPTER 13 “The fause nourice sang”: childhood, child murder, and the formalism of the Scottish ballad revival......Page 235
THE NATIONAL MUSE IN THE NURSERY......Page 238
NOTES AND OCCASIONAL DISSERTATIONS......Page 243
MEN AT WORK, CHILDREN AT PLAY......Page 247
NOTES......Page 252
Index......Page 255