The International Companion to
SCOTTISH LITERATURE 
OF THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Edited by Leith Davis and Janet Sorensen

Published in: Paperback, 450 pages.
By: Scottish Literature International, 2021
£19.95 / €22.95 / $24.95
ISBN 9781908980311

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The period from 1650 to 1800 encompasses the Restoration, the 1688 Revolution, the failure of the Company of Scotland’s Darien colony, the 1707 Acts of Union, the Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1745, and the emergence of the new British Empire as a global superpower. It also witnessed religious, economic, and social upheavals, the beginnings of industrialisation, and the start of the Clearances, as well as the astonishing efflorescence of intellectual activity known as the Scottish Enlightenment. This INTERNATIONAL COMPANION offers new perspectives on how the long eighteenth century transformed Scotland’s literary cultures – both high and low, dominant and marginalised – in English, Gaelic, Latin, and Scots.

Contents

Series Editors’ Preface
Introduction (Leith Davis)

Part I: Language, Identity, and History

1. Adaptation, Integration, and Renewal: Scottish Gaelic Literature, 1650–1750 (Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart)
2. Poems in the Scots Register, 1650–1800 (Corey E. Andrews)
3. Presenting the National Past: The Uses of History in Scottish Literature, 1650–1707 (Leith Davis)
4. Literary Print Culture in Restoration Scotland, 1660–1688 (Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker)

Part II: Media and Mediation

5. Gender and National Identity in Allan Ramsay’s The Tea-Table Miscellany and Eighteenth-Century Scottish Song Culture (Emma Pink)
6. Fierce Females and Male Pretenders: Gender, Cultural Memory and Anti-Jacobite Print Culture in the 1745 Rising (Leith Davis and Jasreen Kaur Janjua)
7. How to Become an ‘Authoress’ in Provincial Scotland: Women’s Poetry in Manuscript and Print (Juliet Shields)
8. Gaelic Enlightenment to Global Gaelosphere: Gaelic Literature, 1750–1800 (Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart)

Part III: Possibilities of Genre

9. Scottish Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century (Ian Brown)
10. ‘Will No One Tell Me What She Sings?’: Scots Pastoral Poetry (David Radcliffe)
11. Gaelic Women’s Poetry (Kate Louise Mathis)
12. Common Sense Philosophy and Sentimental Fiction: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Women Novelists (JoEllen DeLucia)
13. Scottish Enlightenment Inquiry in Gaelic Poetry: ‘Air Fàsachadh na Gàidhealtachd Albannaich’ (Sìm Innes)

Part IV: Environments of Space and Time

14. Eighteenth-Century Scottish Poetry and Ecology (Eric Gidal)
15. The Poems of Ossian and the Birth of Modern Geology (Dafydd Moore)
16. Crossing Borders: Travel Writing and Eighteenth-Century Scotland (Alex Deans)
17. Scots and the Language of the Sea in Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Random and William Falconer’s The Shipwreck (Janet Sorensen)
18. Ottobah Cugoano and Scotland’s Minority Imperialist Culture (Michael Morris)

Endnotes
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index