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  • Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688–1830

    by Leith Davis ...
    Series series Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
    This Element has three objectives. First, it highlights the diversity of the nature of Jacobitism in the long eighteenth century by drawing attention to multi-media representations of Jacobitism and also to multi-lingual productions of the Jacobites themselves, including works in Irish Gaelic, Latin, Scots, Scots Gaelic and Welsh. Second, it puts the theoretical perspectives of cultural memory ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland

    From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising

    by Leith Davis ...
    Mediating Cultural Memory is the first book to analyze the relationship between cultural memory, national identity and the changing media ecology in early eighteenth-century Britain. Leith Davis focuses on five pivotal episodes in the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland: the 1688 'Glorious' Revolution; the War of the Two Kings in Ireland (1688-91); the Scottish colonial enterprise in Darien ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Robert Burns in Global Culture

    by Murray Pittock, Leith Davis, Dominique Delmaire, R D. S. Jack, Nigel Leask, Pauline Anne Mackay, Clark McGinn, Silvia Mergenthal, Andrew Monnickendam, Alan Rawes, Frauke Reitemeier, Christopher A. Whatley, Robert Crawford ...
    Robert Burns has been a key figure in Scottish identity globally since his death in 1796. But he has always been much more than that. In America, his admirers have included Emerson, President Lincoln, Maya Angelou and many others, for Burns was long held to be a friend to the American way of life, an opponent of kings and tyranny, and someone who proved that the values that built the United States ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture

    by Sharon Alker, Leith Davis ...
    While recent scholarship has usefully positioned Burns within the context of British Romanticism as a spokesperson of Scottish national identity, Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture considers Burns's impact in the United States, Canada, and South America, where he has served variously as a site of cultural memory and of creative negotiation. Ambitious in its scope, the volume is divided into ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Making British Culture

    English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740–1830

    by David Allan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship – including the hard-edged intellectual achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • King James and the History of Homosexuality

    by Michael Young ...
    James VI & I, the namesake of the King James Version of the Bible, had a series of notorious male favourites. No one denies that these relationships were amorous, but were they sexual? Michael B. Young merges political history with recent scholarship in the history of sexuality to answer that question. More broadly, he shows that James's favourites had a negative impact within the royal family, at ... Read more

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  • A People's History of Classics

    Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

    by Edith Hall, Henry Stead ...
    A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century.This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature

    Edited by Gerard Carruthers, Liam McIlvanney ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Scotland's rich literary tradition is a product of its unique culture and landscape, as well as of its long history of inclusion and resistance to the United Kingdom. Scottish literature includes masterpieces in three languages - English, Scots and Gaelic - and global perspectives from the diaspora of Scots all over the world. This Companion offers a unique introduction, guide and reference work ... Read more

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  • The Devil from over the Sea

    Remembering and Forgetting Oliver Cromwell in Ireland

    by Sarah Covington ...
    In Ireland, few figures have generated more hatred than Oliver Cromwell, whose seventeenth-century conquest, massacres, and dispossessions would endure in the social memory for ages to come. The Devil from over the Sea explores the many ways in which Cromwell was remembered and sometimes conveniently 'forgotten' in historical, religious, political, and literary texts, according to the interests of ... Read more

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  • Archipelagic English

    Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707

    by John Kerrigan ...
    Seventeenth-century 'English Literature' has long been thought about in narrowly English terms. Archipelagic English corrects this by devolving anglophone writing, showing how much remarkable work was produced in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and how preoccupied such English authors as Shakespeare, Milton, and Marvell were with the often fraught interactions between ethnic, religious, and national ... Read more

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  • Scotland's Books

    A History of Scottish Literature

    by Robert Crawford ...
    From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. In Scotland's Books the much loved poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish imaginative writing and its relationship to the ... Read more

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  • Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500–1677

    Imprints of the Invisible

    by Imtiaz Habib ...
    Containing an urgently needed archival database of historical evidence, this volume includes both a consolidated presentation of the documentary records of black people in Tudor and Stuart England, and an interpretive narrative that confirms and significantly extends the insights of current theoretical excursus on race in early modern England. Here for the first time Imtiaz Habib collects the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD