Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks

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This book is a multi-disciplinary exploration of Jacobitism and its cultural legacy. Chapters in the book examine 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. The book presents important new multi-national and multi-lingual perspectives on Jacobite Studies and the persistence of cultural engagement with the Jacobites.

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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.