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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Mar 20

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

Anns gach gnìomh a nì duine ’s mór urram nan gàidheal: Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir as the Voice of the Gael’s Military Masculinity in the 18th Century

—Liesbeth Van Hulle, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies

4/4

https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jshs.2022.0345?journalCode=jshs

Abstract

The eighteenth century witnessed the changed perception of the Highland male as he evolved from an unruly member of a warrior society to the ideal soldier, participating in the military activities of the British empire. This article explores firstly, how this transformation came about, from the celebration of the warrior society the Gàidhealtachd appeared to be, to the personal identification with the Gael's martial self. Secondly, this article establishes how and why the ordinary Highland man embraced this military identity. As the voice of the eighteenth-century Gael is rather difficult to trace, the life and oeuvre of Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir (Duncan Bàn MacIntyre) is used to represent his fellow Highlanders. Donnchadh Bàn spent his entire adult life carrying arms and was a life-long proponent of the military masculinity the Gael displayed. Especially his enlistment in the Breadalbane Fencibles provides a unique insight. When his fervour for the Gael's warrior masculinity is checked against the many letters from the tenants on the Breadalbane estate, it is not a picture of an innately warrior masculinity that emerges, but one of a man choosing a temporary military path to hunt down economic security and independence.

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Mar 20

Mar 20

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

How does it begin?
With the piper’s drone
with the coarse fabric of the land…

Ben Dorain: An Ecopoetic Translation
Garry MacKenzie on translating “Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain” into a 21st-century ecopoem

3/4

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/8/2/113

Abstract

In this article, I reflect on my own practice in translating Duncan Bàn Macintyre’s eighteenth-century Gaelic poem, Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain, into a twenty-first century ‘ecopoem’. Macintyre’s Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain has been praised for its naturalism. My translation of this long poem emphasises the immediacy and biological specificity of Macintyre’s descriptions. I explore how the act of translation might intersect with contemporary ecological concerns. My poem is not simply a translation, but incorporates Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain into a new work which juxtaposes a free English version of Macintyre’s work with original material concerned with contemporary research into deer behaviour and ideas of ecological interconnectedness, including biosemiotics and Timothy Morton’s ‘dark ecology’. This article is a reflection on my production of a twenty-first century excavation and reimagining of Macintyre’s Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain. I consider how the difficulties of translation might be turned into imaginative opportunities, and explore how translation has the potential to function as exposition and expansion of an original text, in order to create a poem which is itself an ecosystem, comprising of multiple ecological, cultural and political interactions.

Keywords: ecopoetics; translation; Gaelic poetry; Scottish poetry; mountains in poetry; creative criticism; ecology; red deer; biosemiotics; Scottish Highlands

#Scottish #Gaelic #literature

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Mar 20

Mar 20

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

“The richness of Donnchadh Bàn’s language becomes a metaphor for the richness of nature... The poem is a song & the music itself becomes a metaphor for the co-existence of different forms of life”

—Meg Bateman introduces Ben Dorain: a conversation with a mountain, by Garry MacKenzie, (Irish Pages Press/Cló An Mhíl Bhuí, 2021)

2/4

https://irishpages.org/in-praise-of-ben-dorain/?v=7885444af42e

Den Dorain – a steep-sided, conical Scottish mountain. Its sides are sere and brown and a scattering of snow is on its peak.

#Scottish #literature #poetry

**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Mar 20

Mar 20

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir (Duncan Ban MacIntyre, 1724–1812), one of the greatest 18th-century #Gaelic poets, was born 301 years ago #OTD, 20 March

Prof Alan Riach on Donnchadh Bàn’s most famous work, “Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain” (“Praise of Ben Dorain”)

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https://www.thenational.scot/news/14861208.not-burns-duncan-ban-macintyre-and-his-gaelic-manifesto-for-land-reform/

The National · Feb 5, 2016Not Burns – Duncan Ban MacIntyre and his Gaelic manifesto for land reformBy The National Staff

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Mar 19

Mar 19

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

“At the age of 17, I thought it one of the most fast-moving, boisterous & consistently entertaining novels I had ever read”

The late “Grub Street Irregular” Jeremy Lewis on Tobias Smollett’s RODERICK RANDOM. Lewis published a biography of Smollett in 2003

5/5

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3601236/My-king-of-comedy.html

The TelegraphescenicAs a shy, clumsy 1950s schoolboy, Jeremy Lewis longed to inhabit the elegant, exuberant world of Tobias Smollett's novels. Now he has written a biography of his hero, a great writer long scorned by academics

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Mar 19

Mar 19

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

The Scenic Route to Humphry Clinker

Dr Ronnie Young shows how Smollett’s cantankerous Travels Through France and Italy – a “journal of gripes, snipes and stereotypes” – laid the groundwork for his finest novel

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/05/the-scenic-route-to-humphry-clinker-smolletts-travels-through-france-and-italy/

The Bottle Imp · May 1, 2012The Scenic Route to 'Humphry Clinker': Smollett's Travels Through France and Italy - The Bottle ImpIn 1763, Tobias Smollett embarked on a two-year trip round France and Italy. The great eighteenth-century novelist, historian, journalist and man of letters had good reason for quitting Britain. His support for the deeply unpopular prime ministership of the 3rd Earl of Bute (from 1762-1763) had left him the target of what he saw as […]

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Mar 19

Mar 19

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

Tobias Smollett, Novelist: Brutish or British?

Prof Juliet Shields addresses Tobias Smollett’s exclusion from recent studies of the development of the 18th-century novel

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https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/43514/chapter/364250240?login=false

Abstract
This article addresses Tobias Smollett’s exclusion from recent studies of the development of the eighteenth-century novel. Tracing continuities between Tobias Smollett’s most highly regarded novels, Roderick Random (1748) and Humphry Clinker (1771) and the critically neglected Peregrine Pickle (1750–1751), Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753), and Sir Launcelot Greaves (1760–1761), it demonstrates that all of these works represent the experience of being on the margins of elite metropolitan English society. Although Smollett’s novels have been charged with formlessness, this article argues that their “plot” or structuring principle is the marginalized protagonist’s progress toward a British identity. The uncouth humor and physical violence of which critics have complained are simply incidental to that progress, which is never a straightforward trajectory, but which is driven by the protagonist’s repeated and often misguided efforts to infiltrate the inner circles of fashionable English society.

#Scottish #literature #Smollett

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Mar 19

Mar 19

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

“a sharp, quirky, funny satirist, relishing the details of the lives of the underprivileged… Grotesquerie, bodily functions, compulsions, addictions and corruptions, are depicted in detail in a social context of unstable movement, forces that can cut across desires, unpredictable friendships, inimical individuals: Smollett’s world is close to Welsh in these regards also.”

Prof Alan Riach compares Smollett to Irvine Welsh

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https://www.thenational.scot/news/16095421.tobias-smollett---scotlands-original-irvine-welsh/

The National · Mar 19, 2018Tobias Smollett - Scotland's original Irvine WelshBy Alan Riach

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury

**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Mar 19 *

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Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) was baptised #OTD, 19 March.

George Orwell thought him “Scotland’s best novelist”, “whose outstanding intellectual honesty may have been connected with the fact that he was not an Englishman” (Tribune, 22/9/1944)

1/5

https://orwell.ru/library/reviews/smollett/english/e_ts

#Scottish #literature #Smollett

**WerkstattGeschichte** @WerkstattGeschichte@openbiblio.social · Mar 17

Mar 17

WerkstattGeschichte @WerkstattGeschichte@openbiblio.social

Mit Heft 81 „steine“ erschien heute vor 5 Jahren die erste #WerkstattGeschichte beim neuen Verlag, schönen Dank an #transcript in Bielefeld für die Zusammenarbeit!
Der Thementeil, hg. von Susann Lewerenz & Veronika Springmann, bot Beiträge von Sebastian Felten (#Bergbau #18thCentury), Kathrin Rottmann (#Pflastersteine #1968) & Regina Sarreiter (#Steinwerkzeuge, koloniale #Ethnologie).

Dies & mehr online unter: https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/steine/

@histodons @historikerinnen

Cover von WerksattGeschichte 81/2020 unter Verwendung eines S/W-Fotos (Ausschnitt) von Arbeitern in einem Steinbruch: vor einer hohen, hellgrauen Felswand mit teils glatten Schnittkanten, aus der der Stein gebrochen wird, sind unten links zwei Männer auf einem Felsvorsprung zu erkennen, die mit einem übermannshohen technischen Gerät (Bohrer o.ä.) hantieren.

#Histodons #histsci #histknow

**Bibliolater** @bibliolater@qoto.org · Mar 13

Mar 13

Bibliolater @bibliolater@qoto.org

**Trade map of the West Indies and North America, 1741**

#Image attribution: Henry Overton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_new_and_correct_map_of_the_trading_part_of_the_West_Indies.png.

#Map #Cartography #History #Histodon #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Spain #Europe #NorthAmerica #WestIndies #Caribbean #Trade #C18th #18thCentury @histodon @histodons

"A new and correct map of the trading part of the West Indies"

**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Mar 10

Mar 10

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

10 March is International Bagpipe Day!

Why to St. Paul’s, my Dear? What make you chuse
A Church that Jacobites and Papists use,
Where English Mass is lyrick’d o’er by Boys,
And Popish Bagpipes make a hideous Noise?

—how 18th-century English satirists used bagpipes to signify Jacobitism & Catholicism, & the threat to the Establishment

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/the-scottish-bagpipe-political-and-religious-symbolism-in-english-literature-and-satire/

The Bottle Imp · May 1, 2013The Scottish Bagpipe: Political and Religious Symbolism in English Literature and Satire - The Bottle ImpIf you try typing the word ‘bagpipe’ in Google Images, you might be forgiven for assuming the bagpipe world extends little beyond Scotland. Out of the first fifty images, only two show non-Highland bagpipes. This is indeed a culturally interesting detail, since there are hundreds of different kinds of bagpipe in the world — from […]

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Mar 9

Mar 9

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

@gutenberg_org

“not only is there no invocation of the free market […Adam Smith] plainly sees that government, not private industry, is the only force capable of effectively ‘erecting and maintaining’ the technically unprofitable but nevertheless indispensable ‘publick works’ and ‘publick institutions’ […] essential to every modern state.”

—Evan Gottlieb on the origins & legacy of Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand”
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/invisible-hand-over-fist-on-the-development-and-legacy-of-adam-smiths-famous-phrase/

The Bottle Imp · May 1, 2013(Invisible) Hand Over Fist: On the Development and Legacy of Adam Smith's Famous Phrase - The Bottle Imp‘The invisible hand’ is probably the most recognizable catchphrase of economic talk today. Invoked by supporters of capitalism, it insists upon the essential wisdom and naturalness of allowing financial decisions to be made by unfettered market forces rather than by individual or institutional actors; as U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney liked to tell his supporters […]

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**Dr Surekha Davies (she/her)** @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Mar 4

Mar 4

Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

UK #PubDay for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY @ucpress.bsky.social! In 6 #podcast episodes I talk about how monsters and monster-making shaped the origins of the modern world. H/t @sebfalk.bsky.social for photo! 1/ #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

Rows of books in a bookstore bookshelf, some with little cards containing handwritten reviews.

Bright red book cover showing: an oval, silver-coloured mirror with a black frame comprised of sci-fi and fantasy monsters, with yellow lettering for the title, “HUMANS”, around the top of the mirror, in a stylized font with details that resemble whale-tails and bats’ wings. Subtitle just inside the mirror: A Monstrous History. Inside the bottom curve of the mirror: Surekha Davies. Along the left-hand edge of the cover crawls a xenomorph: a humanoid creature with an insect-like head and a long, sinuous, menacing, pointy tail.

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Jan 25

Jan 25

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

Listen to Sheena Wellington sing Robert Burns’s hymn to social equality at the opening of the Scottish Parliament, 1 July 1999

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hudNoXsUj0o

YouTubeA Man's A Man For A' That (Opening of Scottish Parliament) - Sheena WellingtonBy Bruce Davies

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Jan 25

Jan 25

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

Is there for honest Poverty
That hings his head, an’ a’ that;
The coward slave—we pass him by,
We dare be poor for a’ that!
For a’ that, an’ a’ that,
Our toils obscure an’ a’ that,
The rank is but the guinea’s stamp,
The Man’s the gowd for a’ that.

—Robert Burns

https://poets.org/poem/mans-man

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Jan 25

Jan 25

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

Holograph manuscript of “Address to the Unco Guid” with headnote to John Leslie, dated June 1789 – this appears to be the only known ms. of the poem in the poet’s hand. Part of the G. Ross Roy Collection at the University of South Caroline, via the Library of Congress

https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667621/

The Library of CongressAddress to the Unco Guid or the Rigidly Righteous.Robert Burns (1759-96) is best known for his poems and songs that reflect Scotland's cultural heritage. He was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland, the first of seven children belonging to William Burnes, a tenant farmer, and his wife Agnes Broun. Burns had little formal education, but he read English literature and absorbed the traditional, largely oral Scots-language folk songs and tales of his rural environment. He began to compose songs in 1774, and published his first book, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, in 1786. The work was a critical success, and its poems in both Scots and English, on a range of topics, established Burns's broad appeal. While building his literary reputation, Burns worked as a farmer, and in 1788 he was appointed an excise officer in Ellisland. He spent the final 12 years of his life collecting and editing traditional Scottish folk songs for collections including The Scots Musical Museum and A Select Collection of Original Scotish [sic] Airs for the Voice. Burns contributed hundreds of Scottish songs to these anthologies, sometimes rewriting traditional lyrics and setting them to new or revised music. Burns sent a copy of Thomas Randall's Christian Benevolence to John Leslie in June 1789, "as a remembrance of his interest in the Case lately before Ayr Presbytery." The "Case" refers to a running dispute between the Reverend William Auld, minister at Mauchline, and Burn's friend Gavin Hamilton, who was charged with unnecesary absences from church. The Presbytery of Ayr and the Synod of Glasgow ultimately found in Hamilton's favor, but the pitting of Auld Licht (conservative) against New Licht (liberal) aroused considerable interest and animosity in the vicinity, giving rise to Burns's great satire "Holy Willie's Prayer." Burns then transcribed the entire text of his poem "An Address to the Unco Guid or the Rigidly Righteous," on the endpapers and blank preliminary pages of the copy. This appears to be the only known manuscript of the poem in the poet's hand. A collation with the first printing of the poem in the 1787 Edinburgh edition shows several minor differences, and one major variant. In stanza seven, where Burns points out that "To step aside is human," the last two lines read "An just as lamely as can ye mark, / How far perhaps they rue it." The manuscript version appears to make better sense with the word "plainly" in lieu of "lamely."

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Jan 25

Jan 25

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

My Son, these maxims make a rule,
An’ lump them aye thegither;
The Rigid Righteous is a fool,
The Rigid Wise anither…

—Robert Burns, “Address to the Unco Guid, or the Ridgidly Righteous”

Address to the Unco Guid, or the Ridgidly Righteous
Robert Burns

My Son, these maxims make a rule,
An’ lump them aye thegither;
The Rigid Righteous is a fool,
The Rigid Wise anither:
The cleanest corn that ere was dight
May hae some pyles o’ caff in;
So ne’er a fellow-creature slight
For random fits o’ daffin.
—Solomon, Eccles. 7. 16

O ye wha are sae guid yoursel’,
Sae pious and sae holy,
Ye’ve nought to do but mark and tell
Your neibours’ fauts and folly!
Whase life is like a weel-gaun mill,
Supplied wi’ store o’ water;
The heaped happer’s ebbing still,
An’ still the clap plays clatter.

Hear me, ye venerable core,
As counsel for poor mortals
That frequent pass douce Wisdom’s door
For glaikit Folly’s portals:
I, for their thoughtless, careless sakes,
Would here propone defences—
Their donsie tricks, their black mistakes,
Their failings and mischances.

Ye see your state wi’ theirs compared,
And shudder at the niffer;
But cast a moment’s fair regard,
What maks the mighty differ;
Discount what scant occasion gave,
That purity ye pride in;
And (what’s aft mair than a’ the lave),
Your better art o’ hidin.

Think, when your castigated pulse
Gies now and then a wallop!
What ragings must his veins convulse,
That still eternal gallop!
Wi’ wind and tide fair i’ your tail,
Right on ye scud your sea-way;
But in the teeth o’ baith to sail,
It maks a unco lee-way.

See Social Life and Glee sit down,
All joyous and unthinking,
Till, quite transmugrified, they’re grown
Debauchery and Drinking:
O would they stay to calculate
Th’ eternal consequences;
Or your more dreaded hell to state,
Damnation of expenses!

Ye high, exalted, virtuous dames,
Tied up in godly laces,
Before ye gie poor Frailty names,
Suppose a change o’ cases;
A dear-lov’d lad, convenience snug,
A treach’rous inclination—
But let me whisper i’ your lug,
Ye’re aiblins nae temptation.

Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Tho’ they may gang a kennin wrang,
To step aside is human: ‍‍
One point must still be greatly dark,—
The moving Why they do it;‍‍
And just as lamely can ye mark,
How far perhaps they rue it.

Who made the heart, ’tis He alone
Decidedly can try us;
He knows each chord, its various tone,
Each spring, its various bias:
Then at the balance let’s be mute,
We never can adjust it;
What’s done we partly may compute,
But know not what’s resisted.

#Scottish #literature #poem

**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Jan 25

Jan 25

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

“On the dirt roads of Arkansas I first met Robert Burns…”

Currently on the BBC iPlayer: Dr Maya Angelou goes on a pilgrimage to the home of Robert Burns (originally broadcast in 1996 to mark the bicentenary of Burns’s death):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013vcs

“Angelou on Burns” is also available on YouTube, if you can’t watch on the iPlayer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwbuCL-Osh8

BBCBBC Two - Angelou on BurnsWriter and poet Maya Angelou goes on a pilgrimage to Burns Country in Scotland.

#Scottish #literature #BurnsNight