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... poet has better evoked joy and courage? The final note in Whitman is affirmation. HAROLDBLODCETT Union College Scottish Poetry: A Critical Survey. Edited by JAMES KINSLEY.London : Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1955. Pp. ix + 330...

...Van Akin Burd Gill Viljoen Helen, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1956 Pp. 284. $3.75. Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Van Akin Biwd 369 Ruskin’s Scottish Heritage: A Prelude. By HELENGILL VILJOEN...

... A CASE FOR THE SCOTTISH SOLOMON‘ By PETERALEXANDER Measure for Measure has been classified and reclassified since 1875, when Edward Dowden put it with All‘s Well That Ends Well and Troilus and Cressida in a group he described as the “dark comedies...

... Jackson. “The Situation of the Scottish Gaelic Language,” Lochlann , I (1958), 229–34. THE CULTURAL STATUS OF SCOTTISH GAELIC A HUMANISTIC INTERPRETATION By CHARLESW. DUNN~ For at least four centuries the Gaelic spoken in the Highlands and Western Islands...

...: Scottish Common Sense Philosophy and the Origin of American Fiction. By TERENCEMARTIN. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1961. Pp. 197. $4.50. As a study of early American fiction, Terence Martin’s book is entertaining and informative. As a presentation of Scottish Common Sense...

...Paul Giles Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing . By Susan Manning. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002. viii + 339 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Paul Giles is reader in American literature and director of the Rothermere American Institute...

... traces imperialist geography in English historiography via the descriptio Britanniae (description of Britain), a trope found across the Middle Ages, and the fourteenth-century Gough Map, the first sheet-map of Britain. Scottish historians rebut the claims of their Anglocentric counterparts...

...Penny Fielding Penny Fielding is senior lecturer in English at the University of Edinburgh. Her most recent book is Scotland and the Fictions of Geography: North Britain, 1760–1830 (2008). Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745–1820 . By Shields Juliet...

... century. The Scots Songs of Allan Ramsay: “Lyrick” Transformation, Popular Culture, and the Boundaries of the Scottish Enlightenment Steve Newman hat was the Scottish Enlightenment? In a pair of influential texts WAlasdair MacIntyre presents it as the tragic demise of a Scottish...

... attention in more detail in the future. HARRISFLETCHER University of Illinois Man and Society: The Scottish Inquiry of the Eighteenth Century. By GLADYSBRYSON. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1945. Pp. ix + 286. $3.00. For some...

... to an anterior temporal space. This essay offers a more differentiated history, examining Scottish and northern song collectors who differed from these formulations and provided distinct understandings of “the people” and of class. David Herd, for instance, used Scottish Enlightenment theories of sense...

... in relation to his reading of Dante’s defense of the vernacular, a question that Pound works through by way of the counterintuitive process of translation, with the goal of defending American usage against the linguistic regulatory norms of England. Through recourse to a lexicon derived from the Scottish poet...

...Samuel Baker It is well known that Walter Scott adapted the forms of sentimental fiction for his initial trilogy of novels on Scottish manners and that he drew on philosophical theories of sympathy when conceiving of his characters and placing them in historical relation to one another and to his...

...: the transformation of writing, that is, from rhetoric or belles lettres to art. However, while much has been written and said about the French, German, and Scottish Enlightenments, little is known about the Italian one. Engaged in a reevaluation of this lesser-known, peripheral Enlightenment, this essay discusses...

...” appeared in the September 1994 issue of MLQ . Barnaby, Paul. “Another Tale of Old Mortality: The Translations of Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret in the French Reception of Scott,” in Pittock, Reception , 31 -44. Brown, Ian, ed. The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature , 3 vols...

... (Copenhagen, 1899-lW), 214-37, NO. 416. 8 Deutsche Volkslieder, 11, 115-38, No. 42 and especially pp. 125-26. Com- pare English and Scottish Popular Ballads, I, 113. Archer Taylor 25 The German parallels to “The Twa Sisters” (Child, No. 10...

...-single in the richness of its creation and, in one sense, individual in time and place. One way to illuminate the poem is to view its ballad quality, its Scottish-northern-primitive coloring, as it came out of the literary climate of Keats’s time, knowing all the while that illumination...

...Susan Manning University of Washington 2007 Susan Manning is Grierson Professor of English Literature and director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Her most recent works are Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish...

... professor of English at Brigham Young University. Author of The Ruins of Experience: Scotland’s “Romantick” Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness (2007), he is writing a book manuscript that explores literary and geometric experiments with form in the long Scottish Enlightenment. © 2014...

... as a straw man to adduce a discursive context for promoting Welsh, Scottish, and Irish interests, something highlighted further by the misleading suggestion that “the heyday of English migration to North America was the mid-seventeenth century through the early eighteenth century” (17). A footnote directs us...