@studiesinhogg
Peer-reviewed print journal. James Hogg (1770-1835) #EttrickShepherd, poet, novelist, essayist. Submissions: Dr. Holly Faith Nelson at Holly.Nelson@twu.ca #ScottishRomanticism https://jameshoggblog.blogspot.com/
In Conversation with… Pàdraig MacAoidh
1 August, Edinburgh – £12
Scotland’s Makar, Pàdraig MacAoidh (Peter Mackay) discusses poetry’s role in today’s world, the interplay between Gaelic & Scots traditions, & what it means to be Scotland’s official poetic voice
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#callforpapers next issue! “Unsettling Scottish Literature." Submit articles, pedagogical papers, notes on how Scottish lit in the late C18 and early C19 does, or should, unsettle. Double-blind PR. Deadline on or before 1 Sep '25. Submit to Holly.Nelson@twu.ca.
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The new issue of The Bottle Imp @asls.org.uk is out - and it was a treat to contribute a piece on Gaelic crime writing to it, from Erskine's detective tales to Cailein T. MacCoinnich and Tormod Caimbeul's Shrapnel. www.thebottleimp.org.uk/issues/issue...
I've giving a free online public talk tomorrow (Feb. 8) for the Scottish American History Forum. Looking forward to talking about Jacobitism and Cultural Memory. Bright and early: 8 am PT. #jacobites, #memorystudies and #18th-c media chicagoscots.org/event/scotti...
🚨 Lost & Found! A 19th-century Irish translation of Paradise Lost by poet Tomás ‘an tSneachta’ Ó Conchubhair has been rediscovered in the University of Illinois collection! 🎉 Believed lost for decades, it's now live on ISOS. 📜 🌍 👉 Explore: www.isos.dias.ie/collection/u...
I'm so excited to share the punk-rock-vibes cover for Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane. The book will be out 2 Sept '25. Thanks so much for your ongoing help getting this closer to the finish line for #JaneAusten's 250th, which promises to be a bright spot in 2025.
Cover of Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons:Romanticism’s Black Geographies by Katey Castellano . With portrait of Wedderburn
A bright spot in day of horrendous news: the arrival of this 📖 by @kateycastellano.bsky.social. So excited to see this project come to fruition, 🥳, but wish I had had the chance to read it before writing up Wedderburn for the latest edition of the Norton Anthology. Timing?!!
#19thc, #romanticism
In a fortnight at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. A great honour (and surprise) to be asked by @asls.org.uk to deliver the lecture. Join us for a celebration of Douglas Young, George Campbell Hay, Derick Thomson, Willie Neill, and others whose work brought Gaelic and Scots closer in new ways.
📅On 11 March 2025, SAHA co-chair Professor Murray Pittock (@murrayp.bsky.social) will deliver the Buchan 150 Lecture at the @uofglasgow.bsky.social, as part of the institution’s celebrations for the 150th anniversary of John Buchan’s birth.
More info & free tickets 👇
Agnes Sampson, the grave matron before mentioned, after being an hour tortured by the twisting of a cord around her head, according to the custom of the Buccaneers, confessed that she had consulted with one Richard Grahame concerning the probable length of the king’s life, and the means of shortening it. But Satan, to whom they at length resorted for advice, told them in French respecting King James, Il est un homme de Dieu. The poor woman also acknowledged that she had held a meeting with those of her sisterhood, who had charmed a cat by certain spells, having four joints of men knit to its feet, which they threw into the sea to excite a tempest. Another frolic they had when, like the weird sisters in Macbeth, they embarked in sieves with much mirth and jollity, the Fiend rolling himself before them upon the waves, dimly seen, and resembling a huge haystack in size and appearance. They went on board of a foreign ship richly laded with wines, where, invisible to the crew, they feasted till the sport grew tiresome, and then Satan sunk the vessel and all on board.
“A Witches’ Frolic” – a comical illustration, “Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank Nov. 1830”, showing witches squatting in sieves, riding on and above a stormy sea and obviously enjoying themselves (although one witch is somewhat too large for her sieve, and doesn’t look as comfortable as the others). A huge black shape looms in the middle distance, with one enormous eye hinted at. A forked tail pokes out of the waves behind it. On the horizon, a square-rigged sailing ship is obviously in peril.
Walter Scott’s LETTERS ON DEMONOLOGY & WITCHCRAFT (1830): an accused witch confesses – after torture – that she & others “charmed a cat by certain spells, having four joints of men knit to its feet, which they threw into the sea to excite a tempest”
#WyrdWednesday
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Yesterday, I gave presentation about my Burns book to the University of Mainz’s Scottish Hub. The presentation is now on YouTube. Link ⬇️
Flyer for the advertised event. Text reads: Scottish and Irish Gothic 11 April 50 George Square, 1.06 2pm - 6pm Followed by a reception Keynote by Claire Connolly Speakers: Christina Morin, Dale Townshend, Matthew Sangster, Maddy Potter
We’re thrilled to announce our research event on Scottish and Irish Gothic on 11 April, with a keynote by Claire Connolly and a fabulous lineup of speakers. We look forward to welcoming you.
Full details and registration below:
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CALL FOR PAPERS 'CULTURES OF CARE IN SCOTTISH WOMEN'S WRITING' Papers are invited for a special issue which will explore the myriad ways in which the concept of care has been imagined by Scottish women writers. 'Care' encompasses a diversity of meanings across philosophical, moral, and spiritual traditions; in practices which range from social to medial to therapeutic, and beyond; and in semantic terms evokes ideas of nurture, protection, welfare; feelings of solicitude, concern, love. ‘To care for’ someone, or something, is both to experience, and to enact, such affect with vigilance and a kind of watchful attention. We are interested in the ways in which Scottish women writers - across a variety of genres and forms - have imaginatively explored the concept of care as ethos and/or practice. We also invite a range of theoretical and disciplinary approaches from (for example) environmental humanities; medical humanities; history of emotion studies. Themes which might be explored include, but are not limited to: care of, and for self; care of, and for others, including communities and networks; care for nature, environment, and non-human others; therapeutic and/or medical care; concepts of welfare (individual and collective); ideas of nurture; expression of affect and emotion (including anxiety); care as cultural activism; writing/ creating as an act of care; the experience of being taken care of. Please send 200-word abstracts and a short bio to s.m.dunnigan@ed.ac.uk and amcinto9@ed.ac.uk by Thursday 30 January 2025
CFP: Cultures of Care in Scottish Women’s Writing
Special issue of SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW
ed. by Dr @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social & Dr @ainsley76.bsky.social
Please send abstracts for consideration by 30 January 2025
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Love seeing this beauty out in the wild
The online exhibition 'Rewriting the Script: The works and words of Esther Inglis' was created in 2024 at the Edinburgh University Library, with the participation of IASSL members Jamie Reid Baxter and Georgianna Ziegler. Explore it at exhibitions.ed.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
This is indeed a wonderful resource. Created by my former colleague Kenneth Veitch at the European Ethnological Research Centre. Also includes abbreviations, personal names, dates, and measures, and punctuation.
#handwriting #scottishhandwriting #C18th #C19th
An estate maps, of Down Manor in Essex, from 1718. The map shows the estate and surrounding areas, with decorated keys to the top left, top right, and bottom right of the slightly yellowed parchment page.
“Good fences make good neighbours” - Robert Frost. Read @stuartackland.bsky.social's latest blog for the Bodleian Map Room here: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/2025/01.... Poetry AND historic maps in one blog, what more could you want on a wet and windy January day??
Robert Burns: Mythbusters
31 Jan, free online
In this season of Burns celebrations, Dr Peter Kormylo will deliver an “Immortal Memory” with the above title, complemented by recitations by Hanna Dyka of selected Burns poetry in Ukrainian translations
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@erskineproject.bsky.social website now features an overview of content related to Robert Burns in Erskine's seven Scottish magazines: erskine.glasgow.ac.uk/topics/rober.... More on the coverage, and on the stooshie Erskine caused by his Immortal Memory in Eastbourne in 1934, coming soon.
Happy Burns Day! 😉🌹
Edwin Muir wrote several pieces on Robert Burns. Some controversial, others that bear witness to who Burns was to us all. One day when I have enough academic courage & confidence, it will be a topic to return to. An almost conversion @paulinemackay.bsky.social 😉 ??
#edwinmuir
#robertburns
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From the best, to the best, this special day:
From 2020 – Prof Kirsteen McCue, Prof Nigel Leask, & Dr Craig Lamont discuss the importance of the Kilmarnock edition of POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT for Burns, & the significance of the copy of the volume donated by Craig Sharp to @glasgowburns.bsky.social
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Anither faimily link tae Burns. Ma mither grew up in Mauchline near the box works, sae I stertit a wee collection o Mauchline wear. Here’s twa wi a Burns connection.
To a Louse, On Seeing one on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church Robert Burns Ha! whare ye gaun, ye crowlan ferlie! Your impudence protects you sairly: I canna say but ye strunt rarely, Owre gawze and lace; Tho’ faith, I fear ye dine but sparely, On sic a place. Ye ugly, creepan, blastet wonner, Detested, shunn’d, by saunt an’ sinner, How daur ye set your fit upon her, Sae fine a Lady! Gae somewhere else and seek your dinner, On some poor body. Swith, in some beggar’s haffet squattle; There ye may creep, and sprawl, and sprattle, Wi’ ither kindred, jumping cattle, In shoals and nations; Whare horn nor bane ne’er daur unsettle, Your thick plantations.
A black-and-white pen drawing of a lady in profile, looking to the left. She has a self-satisfied expression on her face and is wearing a huge bonnet, tied on with an enormous bow and topped with more bows and two slightly bedraggled feathers. A large, fat, creepy-crawly hovers above her.
Now haud you there, ye’re out o’ sight, Below the fatt’rels, snug and tight, Na faith ye yet! ye’ll no be right, Till ye’ve got on it, The vera topmost, towrin height O’ Miss’s bonnet. My sooth! right bauld ye set your nose out, As plump an’ gray as onie grozet: O for some rank, mercurial rozet, Or fell, red smeddum, I’d gie you sic a hearty dose o’t, Wad dress your droddum! I wad na been surpriz’d to spy You on an auld wife’s flainen toy; Or aiblins some bit duddie boy, On ’s wylecoat; But Miss’s fine Lunardi, fye! How daur ye do ’t?
O Jenny dinna toss your head, An’ set your beauties a’ abread! Ye little ken what cursed speed The blastie’s makin! Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin! O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An’ foolish notion: What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us, And ev’n Devotion!
O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
An’ foolish notion:
What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,
And ev’n Devotion!
—Robert Burns, “To a Louse”
@luathpress.bsky.social, illus. Bob Dewar
#BurnsNight
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At the Wallace Monument for Burns Night (giving talk later on Burns Night & Empire at Stirling Uni).
Thought it’d make sense to reshare my translation of Burns’s‘Scots wha hae wi Wallace bled’ into French to mark the occasion.
Happy Burns Night everyone! 🏴🇫🇷
La Revue Ecossaise will return in January as a brand new podcast - six episodes per year covering key aspects of Scottish culture, history and politics. And all in French of course 🏴🇫🇷
The annual Craig Sharp Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Dr Arun Sood this Saturday at our conference.
Tickets and details can be found 👇
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#CRBSconference
#robertburns
Fantastic news! Many congratulations to Peter/Pàdraig! A fine recognition for the excellent Gaelic writing currently produced in Scotland. Can’t wait to see what Peter will do with this! 🏴
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Take a look at this beauty! The latest issue of Scottish Literary Review, co-edited by me and @scottlyall.bsky.social is available now on @projectmuse.bsky.social. As usual, our authors cover a beautifully wide range of writers, topics, periods, approaches and contexts for Scottish literature 📚