Leith Davis is Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1830 (1998) and numerous articles on topics in Scottish and Irish literature of the eighteenth century and Romantic era.
Introduction Ian Duncan, with Leith Davis and Janet Sorensen; 1. Coleridge,
Hume, and the chains of the Romantic imagination Cairns Craig; 2. The
pathos of abstraction: Adam Smith, Ossian, and Samuel Johnson Ian Duncan;
3. Antiquarianism, the Scottish science of man, and the emergence of modern
disciplinarity Susan Manning; 4. Melancholy, memory and the 'Narrative
Situation' of history in post-enlightenment Scotland Ina Ferris; 5. Scott,
the Scottish enlightenment and Romantic orientalism James Watt; 6. Walter
Scott's Romantic postmodernity Jerome McGann; 7. Putting down the rising
John Barrell; 8. Joanna Baillie Stages the Nation Alyson Bardsley; 9.
William Wordsworth and William Cobbett: Scotch travel and British reform
Peter Manning; 10. Burns's topographies Penny Fielding; 11. At 'Sang
About': Scottish song and the challenge to British culture Leith Davis; 12.
Romantic spinstrelsy: Anne Bannerman and the sexual politics of the Ballad
Adriana Craciun; 13. 'The Fause Nourice Song': childhood, child murder, and
the formalism of the Scottish ballad revival Ann Wierda Rowland.
