Crossing the Highland line : cross-currents in eighteenth-century Scottish writing, selected papers from the 2005 ASLS Annual Conference / edited by Christopher MacLachlan.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

MacLachlan, C. J. M.

Association for Scottish Literary Studies.

David Milne Fund.

Conference Name:

ASLS Conference (34th : 2005 : Sabhal Mòe Ostaig, Scotland)

Series:

Occasional papers (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) ; no. 14.

Occasional papers / Association for Scottish Literary Studies ; no. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scottish literature.

Scottish literature--18th century--History and criticism--Congresses.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Kongress -- Sabhal Mòr Ostaig -- 2005.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vii, 215 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Glasgow : Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2009.

Summary:

"The eighteenth century was a time of dramatic change and drastic upheaval in Scotland, from the Treaty of Union with England in 1707, through Jacobite rebellions in the Highlands, to the Scottish Enlightenment. Crossing the Highland Line is a new collection of essays examining this crucial period, exploring the literary connections and influences across Scotland, and tracing the links between those who wrote in Scots and English and those who wrote in Gaelic." "These essays, from fourteen leading scholars, show that the whole of Scotland - Highland and Lowland, high cultures and low - participated in the reshaping of literature in the eighteenth century. The Highland Line does not divide."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Edward J. Cowan: Contacts and tensions in Highland and Lowland culture

Gerard Carruthers: 'Poured out extensive, and of watery wealth': Scotland in Thomson's The Seasons

Raghnall MacilleDhuibh: Compàirteachadh an Urraim: Mac Mhgr Alastair 's a' Ghalldachd

Ronald Black: Sharing the Honour: Mac Mhgr Alastair and the Lowlands

Christopher MacLachlan: Literary Edinburgh in the Time of Alexander MacDonald

Neil MacGregor: Orm a Laigheas Gach Seanchas: The Gaelic Songs of John Roy Stuart

Murray Pittock: The Jacobite Song: Was There a Scottish Aisling?

Donald E. Meek: Evangelicalism, Ossianism And The Enlightenment: The Many Masks Of Dugald Buchanan

Kenneth Simpson: The Place of Macpherson's Ossian in Scottish Literature

Meg Bateman: The Environmentalism of Donnchadh Bàn: Pragmatic or Mythic?

Margery Palmer McCulloch: The Lasses Reply to Mr Burns: Women Poets and Songwriters in the Lowlands

E. Mairi MacArthur: Fresh Fields for Inquiry: Travellers to the Highlands in the Eighteenth Century

Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart: Highland Rogues and the Roots of Highland Romanticism

William Gillies: The Poetry of William Ross.

Notes:

"These essays are based on papers originally presented at the 34th ASLS Annual Conference, 'Crossing the Highland Line', held at Sabhal Mò̀r Ostaig on the Isle of Skye, 20-22 May 2005."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the David Milne Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Crossing the Highland line.

ISBN:

9780948877889

094887788X

OCLC:

232365855