Resources for Literature and Culture of

Nineteenth Century Scotland, Spring 2003

Instructor: Professor Florence Boos

Office Hours: Monday 6-7 p. m. and Wednesday 3:30-4:20

Phone: 335-0434 (Office)

E-mail: florence-boos@uiowa.edu

Class Materials:

Timeline for Scottish history from pre-historic times through 18th century

Timeline for Scottish history 1746-1960s

Art Gallery: Early Gallery

Information on Scottish Gaelic

Features of poetry: metrics and prosody

Early ballads and lyrics

Robert Burns, Poems

Thomas Carlyle, essays, The Negro Question

David Hume, Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment

Susan Ferrier, Marriage

Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song 1 , Sunset Song 2

Christopher Grieves (Hugh MacDiarmid), Rachel Annand Taylor, Naomi Mitchinson, Bessie MacArthur and other modernist poets

Neil Gunn,"The Tax Gatherer"

W. E. Henley, "In Hospital"

Violet Jacob, "The Debatable Land"

Dr. Johnson, Journey to the Western Islands, James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

James Hogg, Private Memoirs and Confessions, editor's narrative,

Private Memoirs and Confessions, justified sinner's manuscript

Margaret Oliphant, "The Library Window" , "The Wedding Tour" , "The Open Door"

Robert Owen, A New View of Society

Walter ScottHeart of Midlothian, Heart of Midlothian, end

"The Two Drovers" , Waverley, first part , Waverley, middle, Waverley, end

Robert Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr Jekyll, alternate , The Master of Ballantrae

Christian Watt, diaries, first part

Robert Wedderburn, The Horrors of Slavery

Ordinary Life poets: Janet Hamilton, Jane Stevenson, Marion Bernstein, Mary McPherson, Elizabeth Campbell, Ellen Johnston

  Short Stories: traditional, Hogg, "The Cameronian Preacher," Galt, "The Howdie," Stevenson, "Thrawn Janet," "A Lodging for the Night"

 

 Information about Authors (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale Research.)

These links will provide students with basic biographical information. Access is limited to University of Iowa students and staff. Off-campus users may have difficulty accessing this information.

 

Joanna Baillie

James Boswell

Robert Burns

Thomas Carlyle

Helen Carmichael

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Janet Hamilton

W. E. Henley

James Hogg

Violet Jacob

Samuel Johnson

Ellen Johnston

Lady Caroline Nairn

Margaret Oliphant

Walter Scott

Robert Louis Stevenson

 

 Links to Related Sites

 Scottish History Timeline

This page provides a timeline of Scottish history from 7000 B.C. to September 1997. The page received the NBNews Editor's Choice Award (Educational) in August of 1997. It is part of author-medieval historian Robert M. Gunn's (Skyelander's) larger site, Scottish Highlands and Islands History website. This larger site includes information on Scottish history, Medieval History, Celtic History, Scottish battles, and Wars of England and Scotland.

Legends -- Ballads and Broadsides

This page provides access to ballad resources on the Net, contents listings of ballad collections, and includes information on Border Ballads, Child Ballads, and Fairy Ballads. The Legends website is devoted to "exploring the history, literature, and lore surrounding Robin Hood, King Arthur, Pirates & Privateers, and other swashbuckling characters of balladry, fiction, and film, from The Queen of Elfland to Zorro." 

Gateway to Scottish Authors

"Each author has his/her own home page which directs the user to Internet resources which have been researched and deemed quality sites by the Scottish Library Association. The content includes author biographies, E-texts, places of interest related to the authors, and National Library of Scotland holdings. In cases where no Internet resources are available, the relevant excerpt from Discovering Scottish Writers will make up the home page." 

Sir Walter Scott Homepage

Scottish Literature Resources

 

 

 

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