Association for Scottish Literatureさんのイラストまとめ

Summer fading, winter comes—
Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs,
Window robins, winter rooks,
And the picture story-books…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “Picture-Books in Winter”
in A Child’s Garden of Verses
illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith (1863–1935)
https://t.co/MVtQ2Bnch2

“The view of the Jacobites as quasi-colonial primitives is persistent […] The seriousness of Jacobitism is ignored because the power of the threat undermines the story of British unity.”
—Prof @P14Murray on “Whig History” & #Culloden
https://t.co/qOsC1sR3nr

ASLS journal Scottish Literary Review (from present to 2013), plus 16 titles from our Occasional Papers & International Companions to Scottish Literature series, are all FREE to download from @ProjectMUSE until 30 Sept:
https://t.co/RwBqC6ZPPf

We have extended FREE access to our publications on @ProjectMUSE to 30 September. This includes:

⭐️Scottish Literary Review
⭐️International Companions to Scottish Literature series
⭐️Occasional Papers series

Get them here:
https://t.co/UMUoWXu1A2

There’s more on Barrie, & lots more besides, in THE LAND OF STORY-BOOKS: Scottish Children’s Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed @SarahDunnigan1 & Shu-Fang Lai—also FREE on @ProjectMUSE!
https://t.co/7pOr6IafP2

Today, Macpherson is often called a “faker” & “forger”. But much of the hostility towards him is because, shortly after the Jacobite rebellions, he staked a claim for the existence of a #Gaelic high culture.
(Img: Girodet, Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of Fallen French Heroes)

“Ossian” inspired the brothers Grimm to seek out German folk-literature, & Elias Lönnrot to compile Finnish tales into the Kalevala. English scholars, aghast at the lack of ancient epics of their own, conscripted Beowulf (a story about a Geat, & set in Denmark) as “Old English”.

James Macpherson, author/translator of the “Ossian” poems—in part derived from songs & legends from oral tradition—was born #OTD, 1736. The poems were a global sensation, & are the founding texts of European #Romanticism & of modern #fantasy.
(Img: Ingres, Le Songe d’Ossian)