The Hidden Highlander: the Noctes Ambrosianae and the Highlands

David Manderson

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Abstract

This chapter investigates the representations of Highlanders in the nineteenth century Lowland popular periodical (Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine) and concludes that the reality of the Highlands and Highlanders' lives was as marginalised in imaginative writing as in society.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGael and Lowlander in Scottish Literature
Subtitle of host publicationCross-Currents in Nineteenth Century Scottish Literature
EditorsChristopher MacLachlan, Ronald W. Renton
Place of PublicationGlasgow
PublisherThe Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Chapter6
Pages88-103
Number of pages15
Volume20
Edition1
ISBN (Print)ISBN 9781908980106
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Publication series

NameOccasional Papers Series
PublisherASLS

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