Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century

The early nineteenth century saw the dead take on new life in Scottish literature; sometimes quite literally. This book brings together a range of Scottish Romantic texts, identifying a shared interest an imagined national dead. It argues that the publications of Edinburgh-based publisher William Blackwood were the crucible for this new form of Scottish cultural nationalism. Scottish Romantic authors including James Hogg, John Wilson and John Galt, use the Romantic kirkyard to engage with, and often challenge, contemporary ideas of modernity. The book also explores the extensive ripples that this cultural moment generated across Scottish, British and wider Anglophone literary sphere over the next century.

Author: Sarah Sharp
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 09/30/2024
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781474483414