‘Highland Rogues and the Roots of Highland Romanticism’ (original) (raw)

An attempt to sketch out a field of study in which Lowland and Gaelic scholars might cooperate and learn from each other, principally by examining how during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries fashionable pastoral art-song, as much in vogue in the London metropolis as in the Scottish Lowlands, crossed the Highland/Lowland literary divide and came to be employed in both men and women’s Gaelic poetry. I hope that this might raise some questions concerning multilingual ‘literary space’ in these islands during the early modern era, the possibility of long-term cultural chronologies, and the fraught mutual relationship between socio-economic change and change in gender identities and representations.

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