The International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century

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, 1740–1800 (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. The Luxury Debate in Scottish Enlightenment-era 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