Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present - by Leith Davis & Kevin J James (Hardcover)

About the Book

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

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

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

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 Although grounded in academic theories of networks and cultural memory, the fresh historical content will delight the general reader.--Christopher A. Whatley OBE, FRSE, University of Dundee