Kirkyard Romanticism : Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century

[headline]Examines Scottish Romantic writers' shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead The early nineteenth century saw the dead take on new life in Scottish literature. Bursting onto the literary periodical scene in 1817 with an infamous first edition, many of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine's early tales, poems and essays shared a recurring motif: the place of the dead in society. Analysing the development of this theme and the debates around it, Sharp maintains that the publications of the Edinburgh-based publisher William Blackwood were the crucible for this new form of Scottish cultural nationalism. Kirkyard Romanticism argues that Scottish Romantic authors, including James Hogg, John Wilson and John Galt, used the Romantic kirkyard to engage with, and often challenge, contemporary ideas of modernity. It also explores the extensive ripples that this cultural moment generated across Scottish, British and the wider Anglophone literary sphere over the next century. [bio]Sarah Sharp is a Lecturer in Scottish Literature at the University of Aberdeen and Deputy Director of Aberdeen's Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies. Her research focuses on Scottish literature and the long nineteenth century and she has published articles on James Hogg, shipboard diaries, Robert Burns, crime writing and settler colonialism.

• | Author: Sarah Sharp
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 30, 2024
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1474483410
• | ISBN-13: 9781474483414