Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present

Memory, Culture, Networks

Edited by Leith Davis, Kevin J. James

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Traces the representation of the Jacobites in cultural memory over a 300-year period

Maps the long history of Jacobitism in cultural memory from the 1688 Revolution to Outlander
Features new historiographical research on Jacobite networks during the eighteenth century and beyond
Focuses on ideological, material, media, literary, cultural and digital networks connected with Jacobites over the course of three hundred years
Adopts a multi-lingual approach by analysing works in English, Irish Gaelic, Scots Gaelic and Scots

This book is a multi-disciplinary exploration of Jacobitism and its cultural legacy. It examines the early history of the Jacobite movement, analysing how adherents of the Stuart cause used new and existing networks of ideas, people, goods and activities to promote and circulate their ideas. Engaging with media and nineteenth-century literary networks, the book considers the ways Jacobitism itself became an object of interest within a range of disciplines, including antiquarianism, song collection and literature.

Chapters on Jacobitism and networks of modern cultural memory reflect on twentieth-century popular cultural representations of Jacobites. They demonstrate innovative opportunities to engage with the subject matter of Jacobitism in the present day through transnational collaboration and digital humanities.

Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present presents important new multi-national and multi-lingual perspectives on Jacobite Studies and the persistence of cultural engagement with the Jacobites.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks
Leith Davis and Kevin James

Part One: Networking Jacobite Ideologies
Chapter 1: Discourses of Cultural Trauma, Memory and Emotion in Early Jacobite Writing
Erin Peters
Chapter 2: The Jacobite Baroque and the Conspiratorial Mind
Michael Brown
Chapter 3: The Carnegy Network 1697-1704. A Case-Study in the Source Problems Created by Jacobite Underground Operations
Daniel Szechi

Part Two: Material Networks of Jacobitism
Chapter 4: Clanship, Faith and Jacobitism: A Scottish Gaelic Poetry Collection, 1688-93
Aonghas MacCoinnich
Chapter 5: “If this be a Trifle, Consign it to the Flames”: Object Networks in Robert Forbes's “Lyon in Mourning” Manuscript
Viccy Coltman and Georgia Vullinghs
Chapter 6: “A Fair Account of All They Knew”: State Witness Networks and Information Management in Jacobite Prosecutions, 1745–7
Darren Layne

Part Three: Media Networks
Chapter 7: Double-Faced Creeds: Jacobite Poetry and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany
Betty A. Schellenberg
Chapter 8: Jacobite Chapbooks
Anette Hagan
Chapter 9: “Over the Sea to Skye”: The Cultural Memory of Flora MacDonald in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Scotland
Kirsteen McCue and Kate Mathis, with Julianna Wagar

Part Four: Nineteenth-century Literary Networks
Chapter 10: Anne Grant and the Social Networks of Jacobitism
Pam Perkins
Chapter 11: Walter Scott’s Jacobite Spies and Historical Memory
Penny Fielding
Chapter 12: Keeping it in the Family: Women’s Perspectives on the ’45
Juliet Shields

Part Five: Jacobitism and Networks of Modern Cultural Memory
Chapter 13: (Un)Forgetting the Covenanters: Contested Memory and the Tale of Old Mortality Debate in Nineteenth-Century Scotland
Kenneth McNeil
Chapter 14: Exhibiting the Jacobite: The Highland and Jacobite Exhibition of 1903
Kevin J. James and Andrew P. Northey
Chapter 15: “Restory-ing” the Rightful King? Recycling and Revising Eighteenth-Century Cultural Memories of the Jacobites in Outlander
Leith Davis and Laura Mottiez

Part Six: New Approaches to Jacobite Networks
Chapter 16: Irish Jacobite History and Historiography
Éamonn Ó Ciardha
Chapter 17: Robert Forbes, Global Jacobite Networks and the Evolution of the British Empire, 1745–1775
Harry M. Lewis
Chapter 18: A New Approach to Old Networks: Applying Digital Humanities Methodologies to Analyse Robert Forbes’s “The Lyon in Mourning” Manuscript
Leith Davis, Joey Takeda, Shauna Irani, Dana Lai, Emma Trotter and Julianna Wagar.

Bibliography
Index

Reviews

From 1688 to Outlander, the richness and endurance of the Jacobite cause is charted here
– Murray Pittock, University of Glasgow

A gloriously diverse compendium of new insights into and findings about the Jacobite movement as it was promoted, remembered and memorialised from the early eighteenth century to the present. Although grounded in academic theories of networks and cultural memory, the fresh historical content will delight the general reader.
– Christopher A. Whatley OBE, FRSE, University of Dundee

Shaping Jacobitism will surely be a landmark in Scottish studies. Tracking Jacobitism and its fallout across networks of social affiliation and collusion, material culture and media, and assorted literary genres, it brings together leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including emergent as well as established fields and methodologies.
– Ian Duncan, UC Berkeley

About the Author

Leith Davis is Professor in the Department of English and the Director of the Centre for Scottish Studies at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is a co-founder of the Department of English's MA with Specialization in Print Culture. Her areas of specialisation include literature of the long eighteenth century, media history, cultural memory, and Scottish and Irish literature and culture.

Kevin James is Professor of History at the University of Guelph, Canada. He holds the Scottish Studies Foundation Chair and is Director of the Centre for Scottish Studies, and he has held fellowships at universities and research institutions in Ireland, the Scotland, Canada, and across the United States of America, as well as major grants exploring tourism history in Britain in the long nineteenth century.

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