by Daniel Cook Still revered as one of the world’s great historical novelists, Sir Walter Scott kept coming back to…
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Language and Literature . Pre 19th Century Literary Studies . Scottish Literature
Walter Scott the “mighty minstrel” and Marmion
Walter Scott’s poetry dominated the early years of the nineteenth century but has subsequently fallen into relative obscurity. The first…
By Catriona M.M. Macdonald Historians frequently address reputations in their work, indeed they are central to some of the most…
Gerard Lee McKeever’s new book Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831 is published this month in the ‘Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism’ series. To mark the occasion, Dr McKeever spoke to series co-editor Professor Penny Fielding.
Language and Literature . Post 19th Century Literary Studies . Publishing . Scottish Literature
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-2017
By Robert Morrison An extract from Romanticism, Volume 23.3, October 2017 1817 was a remarkable year for British Romanticism John…
Language and Literature . Pre 19th Century Literary Studies . Scottish Literature
An unfinished masterpiece by Robert Louis Stevenson
By Gillian Hughes Many of Stevenson’s longer works of fiction might be characterised as historical novels: in Weir of Hermiston Stevenson…
British History . Christianity . History . Politics, Philosophy and Religion . Religion . Scottish History . Scottish Studies
In memory of Professor Richard Sharpe FBA, FSA, FRHistS, Hon. MRIA
17 February 1954 to 21 March 2020 By John Reuben Davies (Editor, The Innes Review) A year has now passed…
Literary Studies . Post 19th Century Literary Studies
Normal People and the strangeness of other people
Towards the end of Sally Rooney’s acclaimed novel Normal People, the two main characters, Connell and Marianne, talk sleepily one…
Cultural Studies . History . Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies . Politics . Scottish History . Scottish Politics . Scottish Studies . World History
John M. MacKenzie on ‘Bogeys’ Past and Present
It would seem that elements of the Anglosphere have always required a bogey or a multiplicity of bogeys. Perhaps other…
Cultural Studies . Scottish History . Scottish Studies . Theatre and Dance
Celebrating 70 Years of the Edinburgh International Festival
An extract from The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war Britain by Angela Bartie On Sunday 24 August 1947,…