Download or read book Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland to which are Added Translations from the Gaelic and Letters Connected with Those Formerly Published written by Anne MacVicar Grant and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland written by Anne MacVicar Grant and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland written by Anne MacVicar Grant and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Literary and Philosophical Essays written by John Foster and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gaelic Cape Breton Step Dancing written by John G. Gibson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The step-dancing of the Scotch Gaels in Nova Scotia is the last living example of a form of dance that waned following the great emigrations to Canada that ended in 1845. The Scotch Gael has been reported as loving dance, but step-dancing in Scotland had all but disappeared by 1945. One must look to Gaelic Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Antigonish County, to find this tradition. Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing, the first study of its kind, gives this art form and the people and culture associated with it the prominence they have long deserved. Gaelic Scotland’s cultural record is by and large pre-literate, and references to dance have had to be sought in Gaelic songs, many of which were transcribed on paper by those who knew their culture might be lost with the decline of their language. The improved Scottish culture depended proudly on the teaching of dancing and the literate learning and transmission of music in accompaniment. Relying on fieldwork in Nova Scotia, and on mentions of dance in Gaelic song and verse in Scotland and Nova Scotia, John Gibson traces the historical roots of step-dancing, particularly the older forms of dancing originating in the Gaelic–speaking Scottish Highlands. He also places the current tradition as a development and part of the much larger British and European percussive dance tradition. With insight collected through written sources, tales, songs, manuscripts, book references, interviews, and conversations, Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing brings an important aspect of Gaelic history to the forefront of cultural debate.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain etc written by Samuel Halkett and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Edinburgh Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Essays written by John Foster and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
Download or read book Critical Essays written by John Foster and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Romantik 2021 written by Gísli Magnússon and published by V&R unipress. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Romantik. Journal for the Study of Romanticisms” is a multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of romantic-era cultural productions and concepts. The journal promotes innovative research across disciplinary borders. It aims to advance new historical discoveries, forward-looking theoretical insights and cutting-edge methodological approaches. The articles range over the full variety of cultural practices, including the written word, visual arts, history, philosophy, religion, and theatre during the romantic period (c. 1780–1840). But contributions to the discussion of pre- or post-romantic representations are also welcome. Since the romantic era was characterized by an emphasis on the vernacular, the title of journal has been chosen to reflect the Germanic root of the word. But the journal is interested in all European romanticisms – and not least the connections and disconnections between them – hence, the use of the plural in the subtitle. Romantik is a peer-reviewed journal supported by the Nordic Board for Periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOP-HS).
Download or read book A Highland Tour of Victorian Travel Writing written by Dimitrios Kassis and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first quarter of the eighteenth century, Scotland was persistently viewed as a peripheral region, inhabited by savage Highlanders, epitomising the sublime and the grotesque as well as the distance of the Scottish Other from civilised Europe. However, the rediscovery of the Ossianic tradition, the Scottish link to the Norman invasion and the increasing appeal of Scottish historical narratives to the average Victorian set the pattern for the reconstruction of a literary utopia. Facing the risk of racial segregation due to their Celtic background, a significant number of Scottish writers and theorists succumbed to the rising Anglo-Saxonism, seeking every means to prove their Anglo-Saxon background at the expense of their Celtic roots. This volume includes a set of travel narratives and essays on Scotland, covering a period of more than two centuries (1722-1907). The travellers who flocked to Scotland were either driven by literary aspirations, or were on a mission to explore the country’s wild inhabitants, the Highlanders. In their attempt to define Scottish identity in accordance with the cultural, ideological and political standards of the English, Scottish and American travel writers often adhered to the Othering of the Scottish people, promoting images of backwardness and the sublime.
Download or read book Tourists and Travellers written by Betty Hagglund and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2010-02-17 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, travel and tourism in Scotland changed radically, from a time when there were very few travellers and no provision for those that there were, through to Scotland’s emergence as a fully fledged tourist destination with the necessary physical and economic infrastructure. As the experience of travelling in Scotland changed, so too did the ways in which travellers wrote about their experiences. Tourists and Travellers explores the changing nature of travel and of travel writing in and about Scotland, focusing on the writings of five women - Sarah Murray, Anne Grant, Dorothy Wordsworth, Sarah Hazlitt and the anonymous female author of A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland. It further examines the specific ways in which those women represented themselves and their travels and looks at the relationship of gender to travel writing, relating that to issues of production and reception as well as to questions of discourse.
Download or read book The Life of John Knox Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland with Biographical Sketches of the Principal Reformers To which is Subjoined an Appendix Consisting of Letters and Other Papers Never Before Published With a Portrait written by Thomas M'Crie and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature D G written by Samuel Halkett and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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