1820: Scottish Rebellion (eBook)

Gerard Carruthers, Kevin Thomas Gallagher, Craig Lamont, George Smith (Herausgeber)

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2022 | 1. Auflage
256 Seiten
Birlinn (Verlag)
978-1-78885-533-4 (ISBN)

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The 1820 Scottish Rising has been increasingly studied in recent decades. This collection of essays looks especially at local players on the ground across multiple regional centres in the west of Scotland, as well as the wider political circumstances within government and civil society that provide the rising's context. It examines insurrectionist preparation by radicals, the progress of the events of 1820, contemporary accounts and legacy memorialisation of 1820, including newspaper and literary testimony, and the monumental 'afterlife' of the rising. As well as the famous march of radicals led by John Baird and Andrew Hardie, so often seen as the centre of the 1820 'moment', this volume casts light on other, more neglected insurrectionary activity within the rising and a wide set of cultural circumstances that make 1820 more complex than many would like to believe. 1820: Scottish Rebellion demonstrates that the legacy of 1820 may be approached in numerous ways that cross disciplinary boundaries and cause us to question conventional historical interpretations.

Gerard Carruthers is Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. Kevin Thomas Gallagher, Shaw Scholar in 2016-17, gained a PhD from the University of Glasgow on editing Robert Burns. Craig Lamont is Research Associate in the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow. George Smith is a published author and playwright employed in the field of community education.

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Alex Benchimol is Senior Lecturer in Scottish Romantic Print Culture at the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. Alex was a founding co-Convener of the Scottish Romanticism Research Group from 2010–2019. Alex has recently published articles and essays on the Scottish newspaper press in the eighteenth century, including on the Glasgow Advertiser, Caledonian Mercury and Aberdeen Journal. This research is part of a larger book project exploring Scottish periodical history and its relationship to new modes of material improvement and civic identity in Scotland since 1707.

Carol Baraniuk is a Research Associate in Robert Burns Studies at the University of Glasgow, working on the project ‘Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century’. She has presented and published widely on Burns and his contemporaries in Ulster. Carol has a particular interest in how radical activity in Scotland and Ulster was reported in Belfast newspapers of the 1790s and the early nineteenth century. Her monograph James Orr, Poet and Irish Radical (Pickering and Chatto) appeared in 2014. Her essay ‘Bringing it all back home: the fluctuating reputation of James Orr’, in Rethinking the Irish Diaspora (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018), discusses the marginalisation of Ulster Presbyterian radical voices in Irish and British literary traditions.

Rhona Brown is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Literature and the Periodical Press at the University of Glasgow. She is author of Robert Fergusson and the Scottish Periodical Press (2012) and co-editor of Before Blackwood’s: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment (2015), and has published widely on Scots language poetry and the eighteenth-century Scottish press. She is Co-Investigator on two major AHRC-funded textual editing projects: ‘Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century: Poems and Correspondence’, where she is co-editor of Burns’s Letters, and ‘The Collected Works of Allan Ramsay’, on which she is editor of Ramsay’s Poems and Prose. Brown is also Co-Editor of the Scottish Literary Review.

Ian Campbell is Emeritus Professor of Scottish and Victorian Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Born in Switzerland and educated there and in Scotland, he studied at the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, and since 1967 has been on the staff of the Department of English Literature with visiting appointments including Japan, China, Canada and USA. The Duke-Edinburgh edition of the Carlyle Letters, of which he is one of the senior editors, is approaching completion (2022) with volume 50. He has for many years taught and researched Scottish literature, particularly of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Gerard Carruthers is Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is General Editor of the multi-volume Oxford University Press edition of the Collected Works of Robert Burns and is Co-Editor of the Burns Chronicle. Recent publications include contributions to the collections, Commemorating Peterloo: Violence, Resilience and Claim-Making During the Romantic Era (2019) and A History of British Working-Class Literature (2017). With Don Martin, he is co-editor of Thomas Muir of Huntershill: Essays for the Twenty-First Century (2016).

Michael Demson is an associate professor at Sam Houston State University, where he teaches courses in Romanticism, World Literature, and Literary Theory. His recent publications include Romantic Automata: Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms (2020), co-edited with Christopher Clason, Commemorating Peterloo: Violence, Resilience, and Claim-making in the Romantic Era (2019), co-edited with Regina Hewitt, and an English translation Me, Mikko, and Annikki (2020), a Finnish graphic novel by Tiitu Takalo. He has published articles in various journals including European Romantic Review, The Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal, Romanticism, the Keats-Shelley Journal and Romantic Circles.

Kevin Thomas Gallagher won a College of Arts scholarship in 2017 to undertake doctoral research on his PhD thesis, ‘Editing Robert Burns for the Nineteenth Century’, which has recently been completed. Kevin was the Shaw Scholar in 2016–17, which allowed him to complete a Masters degree, wherein he explored the critical reception of Burns in the Scottish Modernist period. Kevin has worked closely with co-editor on this volume, Gerry Carruthers, as editorial assistant for the forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns, and has been on the editorial boards of eSharp and The Kelvingrove Review.

John Gardner is Professor of English Literature at Anglia Ruskin University; he is currently also Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow on the project ‘Engineering notes on contr ibutors xi Romanticism’. John has published widely on eighteenth to twentieth century literature and his monograph Poetry and Popular Protest (2011, 2018 pbk.) was shortlisted for the European Society for the Study of English prize. Current work includes an edition of Pierce Egan’s Life in London for Oxford University Press and a collection of essays, The 1830s, for Cambridge University Press.

Moira Hansen is a postdoctoral researcher and tutor in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, and an Associate Lecturer with the Open University. Her research interests lie in the eighteenth-century intersections between literary culture and medical practices, and in the life and works of Robert Burns as shaped by his physical and mental health. She is also currently reviews editor for the Burns Chronicle, published by Edinburgh University Press.

Archie Henderson, MA Ancient Studies, PgCert Genealogical Palaeographic and Heraldic Studies, is a Social History Researcher at Paisley Museum. His museum and heritage sector career has reflected his passions for cultural heritage, genealogy and social history. Research interests include Scottish Literature, Jacobite Studies, Early Medieval Scotland, Celtic Civilisation, Classical Civilisation, and Christian Theology.

Shaun Kavanagh is a former PhD student at University of Glasgow where his thesis focused on the experiences of Irish and Highland migrants in nineteenth-century Greenock. His publications include an article in the edited volume Scotland and the Easter Rising, 1916, by Luath Press, and on employment networks between Ireland and Greenock in the Journal of Scottish and Irish Studies. He is currently a secondary school teacher in Modern Studies and Politics in Inverclyde.

Craig Lamont is Research Associate in the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow, working on two AHRC-funded projects: ‘Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century’ (PI: Gerard Carruthers) and ‘The Collected Works of Allan Ramsay’ (PI: Murray Pittock). His PhD won the Ross Roy Medal in 2016. His essays have appeared in Studies in Scottish Literature, Scottish Literary Review, Book Collector, Burns Chronicle and other journals, and his monograph, The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow, was published by Edinburgh University Press in January 2021.

Anthony Lewis is the curator for Scottish History for Glasgow Life Museums. Within his remit are collections concerning Scottish government, politics, and literature. These include collections on Scottish radical politics.

Catriona M.M. Macdonald is Reader in Late Modern Scottish History at the University of Glasgow, a former editor of the Scottish Historical Review, current president of the Scottish History Society, and director of the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies at the University of Glasgow. Author of the Radical Thread (2001), and Whaur Extremes Meet (2009), editor of Unionist Scotland (1998) and co-editor of Scotland and the Great War (1999), and author of many other essays and articles on Scottish politics and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, she is currently working on a monograph exploring Scottish historiography since 1832.

Emma Macleod was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Stirling. She is the author of A War of Ideas: British Attitudes to the Wars Against Revolutionary France (1998) and British Visions of America, 1775–1820: Republican Realities (2013), and the coeditor of Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793–1848 (2019), eds Davis, Macleod and Pentland, and The Wodrow-Kenrick Correspondence, 1750–1810, Volume 1: 1750–1780 (2020), eds Fitzpatrick, Macleod and Page. She is the co-editor of the Scottish Historical Review.

Maria Marchidanu is a Scottish Literature PhD candidate. Her research focuses on a comparative study of female identity from Enlightenment philosophy to early nineteenth-century women’s writing. In 2018, Maria was the project coordinator and editor of the literary anthology You Don’t Look British (Lumphanan Press) exploring identity and diversity in Scotland. In 2019–2020, Maria was Lead Editor of the eSharp academic journal...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.11.2022
• Zusatzinfo: b/w throughout, 8pp b/w plates
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1820 • Essays • Rebellion • Revolution • Scotland
• ISBN-10: 1-78885-533-7 / 1788855337
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78885-533-4 / 9781788855334