...Liam McIlvanney Duke University Press 2005 Hugh Blair, Robert Burns, and the Invention of Scottish Literature Liam McIlvanney University of Aberdeen On 4 May 1787, the day before...

...Janet Sorensen Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 McClean Ralph Young Ronnie Simpson Kennish , eds. The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture ( Lewisburg : Bucknell Univ. , 2016 ). Pp. xiii + 299 . $95 ...

... of Scotland at a time when the nation's very existence was under threat. Such a rereading of Watson's collection also contributes toward a reevaluation of the impression that Scottish literature after the Act of Union is pathologically split, a reflection of what G. Gregory Smith referred...

...Juliet Shields Swenson Rivka . Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832 ( Lewisburg : Bucknell Univ. , 2016 ). Pp. xviii + 329 . 16 ills. $100 Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Review Essay...

... “ancient” Scottish tradition posed to the standard English literary history, with its canon based on Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, etc. Richard Hurd James Macpherson literary history English canon Scottish literature Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 ...

... been in place in Scotland since at least the beginning of the eighteenth century, as we see in that founding document of modern Scottish literature, James Wat- son’s Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems published in three parts between 1706 and 1711. James Beattie’s essay...

... grow out of studies of eighteenth-century Scottish literature and culture that explore the tensions between enlightenment and romance, or modernity and tradition, beginning with Peter Womack’s Improvement and Romance (1989), and includ- ing, most recently, Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism...

... pressures.41 As a lifelong Unionist, he may have thought it a price worth paying. Black- lock’s letters certainly show him positively embracing a notion of “Brit- ish” literature, a gesture in keeping with Crawford’s thesis that this post- Culloden generation of Scottish literati were the first...

... antiquarians saw themselves as potentially countering Edin- burgh’s undesirable proclivities was Scotland’s native literature, which Scott and his colleagues embraced with none of the ambivalence often dis- played by the Scottish capital’s notoriously Anglicizing literati.46 This specific impulse...

..., Scottish literature emphasizes exile, dispossession, and emigration: the Scot- tish hero sees, receding in the distance, a home to which he can never return. Summary must omit much that is valuable about this book, not least its rich and often playful prose style. Without undue methodological...

... William and Mary courses, “Scottish Literature and its Cultural Context.” It seems apposite to close, then, with a few words of “Bobbery” from Bruce Lenman, Professor of Modern History at the University of St. Andrews: “Bob and I have always shared a purely...

... McMillan (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ., 1997), 58 – 70. 12.  Thomas Crawford, “Scottish Popular Ballads and Lyrics of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: Some Preliminary Conclusions,” in Studies in Scottish Literature 1 (1963 – 64): 49 – 63. 13.  See Sigrid Rieuwerts, “Allan...

... emeritus of rhetoric and belles lettres at the University of  Edinburgh. His established reputation as a scholar of Scottish literature, especially his defensive preface to Macpherson’s Ossian productions and his Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, enhanced the marketability of the new edition...

...David S. Shields Corey Andrews. Literary Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Club Poetry . Studies in British Literature, no. 82 (Lewiston: Edward Mellen Press, 2004). Pp. 378. $119.95. ISBN 0-7734-6463-8 Duke University Press 2007 Review...

...). 30. Lectures on Belles Lettres and Logic,2 vols. (London: Longman and Co., 1806), 1:130–31. 31. On the teaching of English literary texts in Scottish universities in the 18th c., see Robert Crawford, ed., The Scottish Invention of English Literature...

... nations” revisionists who see his “invented tra- dition” of the Highlands not as Scottish cultural nationalism but as Anglo- British cultural imperialism. This apparent sellout enables Weinbrot to talk about the rise of a “British” — by which he avowedly means an English — literature and national...

... for women.6 To position the Scottish Enlightenment in this way is a brilliant move, and makes this book a valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature on race, gender, and nation in the eighteenth century. Even so, the text is not without some mostly minor limitations. First, the very subtlety...

... on the man Scots historians usually refer to simply as Ilay and on the central role he played in the political and cultural life of Scotland in the early Scottish Enlightenment. Ilay, who, in 1743, at the age of sixty-three, succeeded his elder brother to become the third Duke of Argyll and Chief...

...Adam Rounce Duke University Press 2005 “Stuarts without End”: Wilkes, Churchill, and Anti-Scottishness Adam Rounce Keele University...

... of correct usage. 45. “Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, and the Institutions of English,” in The Scottish Invention of English Literature, ed. Robert Crawford (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 1998), p. 43. 46. The lectures survive only as student...