Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism

The early nineteenth century saw the dead take on new life in Scottish literature; sometimes quite literally. Kirkyard Romanticism brings together a range of Scottish Romantic texts, identifying a shared interest in an imagined national dead. It argues that the publications of Edinburgh-based publisher William Blackwood were the crucible for this new form of Scottish cultural nationalism. Scottish Romantic authors,...

This provocative and timely volume examines the activity of seeking justice through literature during the 'age of revolutions' from 1750 to 1850, a period which was marked by efforts to expand political and human rights and to rethink attitudes towards poverty and criminality. While the chapters revolve around legal topics, they concentrate on literary engagements with the experience of the...