Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism [Paperback]

This is a 2004 collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830.This is the first published collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830--a key period comprising both the Scottish Enlightenment and Romanticism in British literary history. Essays by leading scholars from Scotland, England, Canada and the USA, address a range of major figures and topics.This is the first published collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830--a key period comprising both the Scottish Enlightenment and Romanticism in British literary history. Essays by leading scholars from Scotland, England, Canada and the USA, address a range of major figures and topics.This original collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 includes essays by leading scholars from Scotland, England, Canada and the U.S. Addressing a range of major figures and topics, the essays examine their relationship to the concepts of the Scottish Enlightenment and British literary Romanticism as well as to Scottish and English writing.Introduction Ian Duncan, with Leith Davis and Janet Sorensen; 1. Coleridge, Hume, and the chains of the Romantic imagination Cairns Craig; 2. The pathos of abstraction: Adam Smith, Ossian, and Samuel Johnson Ian Duncan; 3. Antiquarianism, the Scottish science of man, and the emergence of modern disciplinarity Susan Manning; 4. Melancholy, memory and the 'Narrative Situation' of history in post-enlightenment Scotland Ina Ferris; 5. Scott, the Scottish enlightenment and Romantic orientalism James Watt; 6. Walter Scott's Romantic postmodernity Jerome McGann; 7. Putting down the rising John Barrell; 8. Joanna Baillie Stages the Nation Alyson Bardsley; 9. William Wordsworth and William Cobbett: Scotch travel and British reform Peter Manning; 10. Burns's topographies Penny Fielding; 11. At 'Sang About': Scottish song and the challenge to British culture Leith Davis; lӆ