Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism

Murray Pittock MAE FRSE is Bradley Professor and Pro Vice-Principal at the University of Glasgow, and Scotland’s leading cultural historian. A prizewinner of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy, he has held visiting appointments or spoken at the universities of UC Berkeley, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, UCL, New York University, Notre Dame, Oslo, Oxford, the Sorbonne, Virginia, Yale, Gresham College, the British Academy, The British Museum, Hampton Court, the Smithsonian, the House of Commons and many other locations. He is the General Editor of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay.

This is a very useful and in some respects essential collection of essays on Scottish literature in the Romantic period...

• Series Editors' Preface; Introduction: What is Scottish Romanticism?, Murray Pittock; Section 1: The Scottish Public Sphere: Themes, Groups and Identities; 1. Ballads and Chapbooks, Steve Newman; 2. Romantic Macpherson, Fiona Stafford; 3. Scottish Song, Lyric Poetry and the Romantic Composer, Kirsteen McCue; 4. Gaelic Literature and Scottish Romanticism, Thomas Clancy; 5. Travel Writing and the Picturesque, Matthew Wickman; 6. Urban Space and Enlightened Romanticism, Ian Duncan; 7. Periodicals and Public Culture, Alex Benchimol; 8. The Scottish National Tale, Andrew Monnickendam; 9. Religion and Scottish Romanticism, Crawford Gribben; Section 2: Authors and Texts; 10. Robert Burns and Romanticism in Britain and Ireland, Nigel Leask; 11. Walter Scott's Romanticism: a Theory of Performance, Caroline McCracken-Flesher; 12. Byron, Brean Hammond; 13. John Galt's Fictional and Performative Worlds, Angela Esterhammer; 14. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Peter Garside; 15. The function of linguistic variety in Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian, Fernando Toda; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.