Bringing together an international group of experts, this companion explores a distinctly Scottish Romanticism. Discussing the most influential texts and authors in depth, the original essays shed new critical light on texts from Macpherson's Ossian poetry to Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, and from Scott's Waverley Novels to the work of John Galt. As well as dealing with the major Romantic figures, the contributors look afresh at ballads, songs, the idea of the bard, religion, periodicals, the national tale, the picturesque, the city, language and the role of Gaelic in Scottish Romanticism.Key Features* The first and only student guide to Scottish Romanticism capturing the best of critical debate while providing new approaches* Contributors include: Ian Duncan (UC Berkeley), Angela Esterhammer (Zurich University), Peter Garside (Edinburgh University), Andrew Monnickendam (Barcelona University), Fiona Stafford (Oxford University), Fernando Toda (Salamanca University) and Crawford Gribben (Trinity College, Dublin) - who have themselves helped to define approaches to the period

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The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series Editors’ Preface
- INTRODUCTION What is Scottish Romanticism?
- SECTION I The Scottish Public Sphere: Themes, Groups and Identities
- CHAPTER ONE Ballads and Chapbooks
- CHAPTER TWO Romantic Macpherson
- CHAPTER THREE Scottish Song, Lyric Poetry and the Romantic Composer
- CHAPTER FOUR Gaelic Literature and Scottish Romanticism
- CHAPTER FIVE Travel Writing and the Picturesque
- CHAPTER SIX Urban Space and Enlightened Romanticism
- CHAPTER SEVEN Periodicals and Public Culture
- CHAPTER EIGHT The Scottish National Tale
- CHAPTER NINE Religion and Scottish Romanticism
- SECTION II Authors and Texts
- CHAPTER TEN Robert Burns and Romanticism in Britain and Ireland
- CHAPTER ELEVEN Walter Scott’s Romanticism: A Theory of Performance
- CHAPTER TWELVE Byron
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN John Galt’s Fictional and Performative Worlds
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Function of Linguistic Variety in Walter Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian
- Endnotes
- Further Reading
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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