Bøger af Murray Pittock

This special issue of Studies in Scottish Literature, guest-edited by Professor Murray Pittock and Dr. Craig Lamont of the University of Glasgow, is the first to focus on the early 18th-century Scottish poet, dramatist, editor, and publisher Allan Ramsay (1786-1758). The contributors are all connected with the major AHRC-funded research project, the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay, based at Glasgow, and published by Edinburgh University Press. Professor Pittock's preface surveys the recent growth of interest in Ramsay, and the role of the Glasgow edition and editorial team in that growth. This is followed by seven essays with new research on different aspects of Ramsay's achievement, including his relation to Scottish Romanticism, sociability in his early poems, the mapping of Ramsay country, Ramsay and 18th century Scoto-Latinity, on ideas of improvement and on the songs in his play The Gentle Shepherd, and on approaches to standardizing written Scots in Ramsay and the Scottish antiquarian Thomas Ruddiman.

James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum (1787-1803) is now inextricably linked to its greatest contributor, the Scots poet Robert Burns. In his Ormiston Roy Lecture, Murray Pittock shows that the simple question "Who Wrote the Scots Musical Museum?" raises complex questions about the nature of authorship and editing in the collaborative and social enterprise of song publication.

This is a study of Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided by urban studies theory, it pinpoints the distinctive features that made Enlightenment in the Scottish capital possible.

The second edition of this revolutionary book argues that British history has long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to understand it, and that the Jacobite Risings drew on extensive Lowland support and had a national quality within Scotland.

Scottish Nationality examines Scotland's relationship with both England and the wider world in order to put Scotland in context within the new British history and the new Britain itself.