9. The Ossianic Revival, James Beattie and Primitivism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface viii
4. 1. Scotland as North Britain: The Historical Background, 1707–1918 1
5. 2. A Nation Transformed: Scotland’s Geography, 1707–1918 12
6. 3. Standards and Differences: Languages in Scotland, 1707–1918 21
7. 4. The International Reception and Literary Impact of Scottish Literature of the Period 1707–1918 33
8. 5. Post-Union Scotland and the Scottish Idiom of Britishness 45
9. 6. The Emergence of Privacy: Letters, Journals and Domestic Writing 57
10. 7. Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment 71
11. 8. Ramsay, Fergusson, Thomson, Davidson and Urban Poetry 80
12. 9. The Ossianic Revival, James Beattie and Primitivism 90
13. 10. Scottish–Irish Connections, 1707–1918 99
14. 11. Scottish Song and the Jacobite Cause 105
15. 12. Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair and the New Gaelic Poetry 110
16. 13. Orality and Public Poetry 125
17. 14. Varieties of Public Performance: Folk Songs, Ballads, Popular Drama and Sermons 133
18. 15. Historiography, Biography and Identity 143
19. 16. Scotland’s Literature of Empire and Emigration, 1707–1918 153
20. 17. Tobias Smollett 163
21. 18. Writing Scotland: Robert Burns 169
22. 20. Walter Scott 183
23. 21. Law Books, 1707–1918 191
24. 22. Periodicals, Encyclopaedias and Nineteenth-Century Literary Production 198
25. 23. Hogg, Galt, Scott and their Milieu 211
26. 24. The Scottish Book Trade at Home and Abroad, 1707–1918 221
27. 25. The National Drama, Joanna Baillie and the National Theatre 228
28. 26. The Literature of Industrialisation 236
29. 27. The Carlyles and Victorianism 244
30. 28. Gaelic Literature in the Nineteenth Century 253
31. 29. Nineteenth-Century Scottish Thought 267
32. 30. Travel Writing, 1707–1918 277
33. 31. ‘Half a trade and half an art’: Adult and Juvenile Fiction in the Victorian Period 286
34. 32. Nineteenth-Century Scottish Poetry 301
35. 33. The Press, Newspaper Fiction and Literary Journalism, 1707–1918 308
36. 34. The Kailyard: Problem or Illusion? 317
37. 35. Robert Louis Stevenson 324
38. 36. J. M. Barrie 331
39. 37. Patrick Geddes and the Celtic Revival 338
40. 38. The Collectors: John Francis Campbell and Alexander Carmichael 347
41. 39. Gaelic Literature and the Diaspora 353
42. 40. The Literature of Religious Revival and Disruption 360
43. Notes on Contributors – Volume Two 371
44. Index 376