"Every Heart North of the Tweed": Placing Canadian magazines of the 1820s and 1830s

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"Every Heart North of the Tweed": Placing Canadian magazines of the 1820s and 1830s

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Annals of the Parish/Three Short Novels: Glenfell; Andrew of Padua, the Improvisatore; The Omen

Annals of the Parish, by John Galt, edited by Robert P. Irvine, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, 2020, xlviii + 267 pp. Three Short Novels: Glenfell; Andrew of Padua, the Improvisatore; The Omen, by John Galt, edited by Angela Esterhammer, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, 2020, xl + 330 pp

Writing emigration: Canada in Scottish romanticism, 1802â1840

This thesis is a study of the representation of emigration to Canada in Scottish Romantic periodicals and fiction, and of the relationship between these genres and the little-studied genre of the emigrant's guide. Chapter One tracks the Edinburgh Review and Quarterly Review's reviews of books on Canadian topics and demonstrates how the rival quarterlies respond to, and intervene in, the evolving public debate about emigration. Chapter Two examines depictions of Canada in Blackwood's Magazine and Fraser's Magazine, and reveals connections between these magazines' engagement with Canadian affairs and the concurrent reception of Scottish Romanticism in early Canadian literary magazines. Chapter Three argues for an understanding of the emigrant's guide as a porous form that acts as a bridge between nonfictional and fictional representations of emigration. Chapter Four reads novels with emigration plots in relation to the pressures of American, Canadian and transatlantic canon formation, arguing that these novels trouble the stark division between the American and Canadian emigrant experiences which was insisted upon by contemporary commentators and which continues to underpin criticism of transatlantic literary works. Chapter Five considers the relationship between Scottish Romanticism and nineteenth-century Canadian literature, a relationship which has often been framed in terms of the portability of a 'Scottish model' of fiction associated most strongly with Walter Scott. Overall, this thesis contends that foregrounding the literature of emigration allows for greater understanding of the synchronicity of Scottish Romanticism and the escalation of transatlantic emigration, offering an alternative to conceptions of Canadaâs colonial and transatlantic belatedness.</p

Writing emigration: Canada in Scottish romanticism, 1802–1840

This thesis is a study of the representation of emigration to Canada in Scottish Romantic periodicals and fiction, and of the relationship between these genres and the little-studied genre of the emigrant's guide. Chapter One tracks the Edinburgh Review and Quarterly Review's reviews of books on Canadian topics and demonstrates how the rival quarterlies respond to, and intervene in, the evolving public debate about emigration. Chapter Two examines depictions of Canada in Blackwood's Magazine and Fraser's Magazine, and reveals connections between these magazines' engagement with Canadian affairs and the concurrent reception of Scottish Romanticism in early Canadian literary magazines. Chapter Three argues for an understanding of the emigrant's guide as a porous form that acts as a bridge between nonfictional and fictional representations of emigration. Chapter Four reads novels with emigration plots in relation to the pressures of American, Canadian and transatlantic canon formation, arguing that these novels trouble the stark division between the American and Canadian emigrant experiences which was insisted upon by contemporary commentators and which continues to underpin criticism of transatlantic literary works. Chapter Five considers the relationship between Scottish Romanticism and nineteenth-century Canadian literature, a relationship which has often been framed in terms of the portability of a 'Scottish model' of fiction associated most strongly with Walter Scott. Overall, this thesis contends that foregrounding the literature of emigration allows for greater understanding of the synchronicity of Scottish Romanticism and the escalation of transatlantic emigration, offering an alternative to conceptions of Canada’s colonial and transatlantic belatedness.</p

Retrieving and Renewing: International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Leith Davis and Janet Sorensen, Glasgow, Scottish Literature International, 2021, vii + 442 pp.; International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature, edited by Sheila M. Kidd, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, and Kenneth McNeil, Glasgow, Scottish Literature International, 2022, ix + 287 pp.

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'Wha sae base as be a slave?': linguistic spaces in Scottish historical fiction, and where slavery doesn't fit

This thesis examines the literary incompatibility of two different currents in eighteenth-century Scottish history, exemplified by the figurative use of 'slavery' to refer to the oppression of Scots and the simultaneous effacement of Scotland's involvement in the practice of plantation slavery in the colonies. The focus of the competing histories is Scotland's entry into the sphere of social and economic progress opened up by the Union of 1707. In the traditional version, this happens at the expense of the Jacobites, who are left out of the modern British polity because of their unassimilable backwardness and cultural otherness. In more recent re-evaluations, it also happens at the expense of the slaves whose labour underpins British commercial development. This thesis studies four novels about the 1745 Jacobite uprising: Walter Scott's Waverley, whose hero personifies the rejection of Jacobitism in favour of unified Britishness; James Robertson's Joseph Knight, which sets slavery and Jacobitism side by side; and Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped and Catriona, which fall somewhere in between. It argues that these novels negotiate history in linguistic and spatial terms. Jacobites are closely associated with a particular place, the Highlands, but this space is also conceived as a linguistic gap or 'vacuity'; confronting Scotland with Jamaica brings the semantic flexibility of 'slavery' into question; and the narrative function of Scots dialect is to resist the fixity of histories that either ignore slavery or incorporate it too completely.Ce mémoire examine l'incompatibilité, en littérature, de deux tendances simultanées dans l'histoire de l'Écosse au dix-huitième siècle, représentées, d'un côté, par l'usage figuratif de « l'esclavage » pour indiquer l'oppression des Écossais et, de l'autre, par le silence de l'Écosse au sujet de sa participation à l'esclavage colonial dans les plantations. Ces tendances contradictoires se concentrent sur l'entrée de l'Écosse dans la sphère du progrès social et économique suite à l'Union de 1707. Dans la version traditionnelle, cette entrée se fait au détriment des jacobites, qui sont tenus à l'écart du régime politique de la Grande-Bretagne moderne, puisque considérés comme inassimilables du fait de leur altérité et de leur retard culturels. Dans des relectures plus récentes, elle se fait aussi au détriment des esclaves dont le travail est le fondement du développement commercial britannique. Ce mémoire explore le soulèvement jacobite de 1745 à travers l'étude de quatre romans : Waverley de Walter Scott, dont le héros incarne la rejection du jacobitisme en faveur d'une identité britannique unie, Joseph Knight de James Robertson, qui met en parallèle esclavage et jacobitisme, ainsi que Kidnapped et Catriona de Robert Louis Stevenson, qui mêlent les deux tendances. Ce mémoire soutient que ces romans négocient l'histoire à la fois linguistiquement et spatialement. Tout d'abord, les jacobites sont intimement liés à un lieu spécifique, les Highlands, mais cet espace est également conçu comme un fossé ou « vide » linguistique. De plus, mettre en tension l'Écosse et la Jamaïque pose la question de la flexibilité sémantique de « l'esclavage ». Enfin, la fonction narrative du dialecte écossais est de résister la fixité des histoires qui ignorent l'esclavage ou, à l'inverse, l'incluent sans l'interroger