Research

Romanticism/18th Century

This cluster encompasses major themes including travel writing, textual editing, periodicals, Scottish literature, working-class writing, and medical humanities.

Staff

Publications

2026

Young, R. (2026) Teaching Scottish verse of the long-eighteenth century. Palgrave Macmillan

Sangster, M. (2026) Regulating poetry in the 1800s. Cambridge University Press

Carruthers, G., Malgrati, P. (2026) Scottish food patriotism and the literary antecedents of Robert Burns’s ‘To a Haggis’ International Review of Scottish Studies, 51, pp. 31-52. (doi: 10.3366/irss.2026.0063)

Richardson, R. (2026) The stubborn will to mean: sympathy, relationality, and the origins of collecting Indigenous bones in the eighteenth century. English Literary History, 93, pp. 367-396. (doi: 10.1353/elh.2026.a993114)

Sangster, M. (2026) Affecting retreats and academic follies: the Romantic-period college in poets' spheres. Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840, 25, pp. 29-49. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.20015084)

Gillespie, S. (2026) A Popean imitation of Donne’s first satire. Translation and Literature, 35, pp. 18-27. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2026.0647)

Gillespie, S. (2026) Two translations of Ariosto by Henry Richard Fox, Lord Holland: introduction and texts. Translation and Literature, 35, pp. 28-64. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2026.0648)

Gillespie, S. (2026) The fettered and the flea: a new poem by Edmund Waller. Renaissance Studies, 40, pp. 41-54. (doi: 10.1111/rest.12974)

2025

Coyer, M. (2025) ‘By famine, sword, and pestilence’: James Hogg and Cholera in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country. Scottish Literary Review, 17, pp. 23-44.

Carruthers, G. (2025) ‘My visage will be deemed a prize’: a painting of Robert Fergusson recently made public. Burns Chronicle, 134, pp. 167-187. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2025.0144)

Gillespie, S. (2025) An unrecorded English Suetonius, 1725. Translation and Literature, 34, pp. 176-205. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2025.0626)

Gillespie, S. (2025) Lucian in Naples, 1779: a complete English translation, sampled. Translation and Literature, 34, pp. 206-221. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2025.0627)

(2025) 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson.

McCue, K., Mathis, K. L., Wagar, J. (2025) ‘Over the Sea to Skye’: The cultural memory of Flora MacDonald in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland. Edinburgh University Press

Halsey, K., Sangster, M., Aitken, B., Baston, K., Branagh-Miscampbell, M., Deans, A., Kennard Imrie, J., Mckeever, G., Smith, J. J. (2025) [S]hut Not Thy Heart, nor Thy Library': realising the potential of historical library borrowing data. Facet Publishing

Benchimol, A. (2025) Nicholas Brownlees, ed., The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation, 1640–1800. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Pp. xxviii + 692. Eighteenth-Century Scotland, 39, pp. 35-36.

Galt, J. (2025) The Last of the Lairds.

Young, R. (2025) 'Robert Burns: forgery and "Antique Smith"'

(2025) English and Boys: why are young men turning away from our subject? English Association Newsletter,

Carruthers, G. (2025) A selective history of Scottish PEN from 1950 to 1997. Studies in Scottish Literature, 51, pp. 81-100. (doi: 10.3366/ssl.2025.0008)

Gillespie, S. (2025) A Victorian Vergil in Spenserian stanzas: Henry Edwards' Destruction of Troy. Translation and Literature, 34, pp. 98-109. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2025.0617)

Pittock, M. (2025) Allan’s A-list: the subscription list to Allan Ramsay’s Poems of 1721. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 48, pp. 3-28. (doi: 10.1111/1754-0208.12966)

Gillespie, S. (2025) An Unknown Poem by Edmund Waller. Notes and Queries, 72, pp. 58-60. (doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjae145)

Gillespie, S. (2025) An unknown English translation of The Golden Ass, 1825. Translation and Literature, 34, pp. 90-97. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2025.0616)

Carruthers, G. (2025) ‘Ye Black-nebs a’ by Name’: a draft, cancelled autograph manuscript by Robert Burns. Burns Chronicle, 134, pp. 123-126. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2025.0134)

Carruthers, G. (2025) Major playwright II: James Bridie and his theatre. Oxford University Press

Burgess, K., Carruthers, G., Lamont, C., Newton, J., Smith, G., Young, R. (2025) Robert Burns: archival aspects of the printed and manuscript record in the digital age. Oxford University Press

Leask, N. (2025) ‘Such blessing is there in perfect liberty’: Coleridge’s ‘wild journey’ in Scotland, 1803. Coleridge Bulletin,

Coyer, M. (2025) Contributions to Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country.

Hames, S., McCue, K. (2025) Institutions. Cambridge University Press

Mackay, P., Matthews, A., McDonnell, N., Verschuren, L. (2025) Learn to Build Your Own Museum in the Metaverse.

Benchimol, A. (2025) Print, Nation, and Improvement: the Scottish Press and Public Sphere, 1699-1800. Routledge

Gilbert, S., McCue, K. (2025) Tradition and revival in the wake of the Union. Cambridge University Press

2024

(2024) William Soutar: Collected Works (Vols. 1 & 2)

Benchimol, A. (2024) Print culture and the press in early modern Scotland. Studies in Scottish Literature,

Bruce, F., Pittock, M. (2024) Museums in the Metaverse: Audiences and Impact Report.

Gibson, C., Young, R. (2024) 'Foreword', SQA's Summary Report: Scottish Text refresh consultation, November 2024.

Gillespie, S. (2024) Thomas Percy's translations of Ovid's Epistles: introduction and text. Translation and Literature, 33, pp. 319-345. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2024.0600)

Gillespie, S. (2024) ‘After Death, Nothing is’: a collection of English translations of Seneca’s Troades Act 2 Chorus, 1559-1751. Translation and Literature, 33, pp. 346-363. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2024.0601)

(2024) The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes.

Brown, R., Wilcockson, A. (2024) Scotia's Bard: Robert Fergusson, Edinburgh's unofficial poet laureate and Scotland's voice. History Today, 74, pp. 22-24.

Brown, R., Wilcockson, A., Thompson, C. (2024) Celebrating the Scottish Poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-74)

Carruthers, G., Hansen, M. (2024) Fugitive morality in two Scots poets: Robert Burns, Alexander Wilson and the law. Edinburgh University Press

Edwards, E., McCue, K. (2024) Making song travel: crosscurrents of language and landscape in Welsh and Scottish song collections, 1804–1818. Studies in Romanticism, 63, pp. 189-212. (doi: 10.1353/srm.2024.a931781)

Gillespie, S. (2024) A Victorian Dantofilo: Henry Clark Barlow’s Paradiso 7. Translation and Literature, 33, pp. 238-244. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2024.0590)

Gillespie, S. (2024) Some English Horatians of the 1790s. Translation and Literature, 33, pp. 229-237. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2024.0589)

Gillespie, S. (2024) Two unknown translations of Boileau’s Satires by Sidney Godolphin (1645-1712), Lord Treasurer. Translation and Literature, 33, pp. 217-228. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2024.0588)

Sangster, M. (2024) The A to Z of Regency London 1819. London Journal, (doi: 10.1080/03058034.2024.2332144)

Sangster, M. (2024) Metropolitanism. Oxford University Press

Carruthers, G. (2024) Robert Burns: How the Man became Myth.

Brown, R. (2024) The battle for memory: the reception of Mary, Queen of Scots in the eighteenth-century British periodical press. Edinburgh University Press

Carruthers, G. (2024) ‘Deeply impressed upon the imagination’: The return of Mary in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Edinburgh University Press

Carruthers, G., Ingham, E. (2024) Robert Burns, Patrick Heron, and an annotated 1793 poems at Mount Stuart. Burns Chronicle, 133, pp. 82-91. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2024.0103)

(2024) Romanticism, travel and the Celtic languages. Studies in Romanticism,

Haynes, D. K., Lamont, C. (2024) Haste Ye Back. 53,

Gillespie, S. (2024) Stephen MacKenna on translation. Translation and Literature, 33, pp. 18-28. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2024.0572)

(2024) The Prose of Allan Ramsay. 5,

Lamont, C. (2024) Burns in the digital age. Oxford University Press

McCue, K. (2024) 'For the Honour of Caledonia': Burns's songs for George Thomson. Oxford University Press

Carruthers, G., Smith, G. (2024) Bard behaviour: imitating, mistaking, and faking Burns. Oxford University Press

Mackay, P. (2024) Burns and Bawdry. Oxford University Press

Brown, R. (2024) Burns biography, 1786-1800. Oxford University Press

Carruthers, G., Baraniuk, C. (2024) Burns biography, 1808–1939. Oxford University Press

Carruthers, G. (2024) Introduction: Robert Burns, poet and texts in life and afterlife. Oxford University Press

Young, R. (2024) The Kirk Satires and Kirk Politics. Oxford University Press

(2024) The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns.

Carruthers, G., Gallagher, K. T. (2024) The politics of Robert Burns from the 1780s to the 1790s. Oxford University Press

Kovesi, S. (2024) John Clare out of Copyright.

(2024) A Companion to Scottish Literature.

Lamont, C. (2024) Scottish literature in the 21st century and the new media. Wiley Blackwell

Young, R. (2024) The Enlightenment. Wiley Blackwell

Brown, R. (2024) Publishing in Scotland to 1800. Wiley Blackwell

Brown, R., Wilcockson, A. (2024) The Collected Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies.

McCue, K., Hughes, L. (2024) BOSLIT - The Blog.

Halsey, K., Sangster, M., Aitken, B., Baston, K., Branagh-Miscampbell, M., Macfarlane, I., Smith, J., O'Callaghan Yeoman, C. (2024) Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers.

Brown, R., Mackay, P., Young, R. (2024) Formalising feeling: Robert Burns's punctuation. Cambridge University Press

Constantine, M.-A., Leask, N. (2024) Introduction: Romanticism, travel, and the Celtic languages. Studies in Romanticism, 63, pp. 97-115. (doi: 10.1353/srm.2024.a931777)

Leask, N., Ó Muircheartaigh, P. (2024) ‘Travelling Gaels’: Coloniality and dislocation in the Gaelic Atlantic. Studies in Romanticism, 63, pp. 231-253. (doi: 10.1353/srm.2024.a931783)

2023

Lamont, C. (2023) Cultural memory and nationalism at Scotland's international exhibitions: 1886–1938. Studies on National Movements, 12, pp. 71-100. (doi: 10.21825/snm.90192)

Young, R., Gibson, C. (2023) ‘Not the date of the Battle of Flodden or the capital of Finland’: Scottish Literature and its curricula. Studies in Scottish Literature,

Carruthers, G. (2023) Introduction: What is Scottish literature? Wiley-Blackwell

Carruthers, G., Broun, D. (2023) The first millennium. Wiley-Blackwell

Carruthers, G. (2023) Adam Smith and Scottish literature. Adam Smith Global Foundation

Lamont, C. (2023) ‘Class’d With Tasso And Guarini’: Allan Ramsay’s The Gentle Shepherd. Bottle Imp, 33,

Kirk, T., Sangster, M. (2023) Editors’ introduction. British Library Publishing

Sangster, M. (2023) Fantasy’s weird architectures. British Library Publishing

Kovesi, S. (2023) Poets THEN and NOW: The 1910-1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Romantic Poetry Project: CLARE, John (1793-1864)

(2023) Realms of Imagination: Essays from the Wide Worlds of Fantasy.

Gillespie, S. (2023) Creative translation and classical reception: the English Pervigilium Veneris. Translation and Literature, 32, pp. 267-299. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2023.0559)

Leask, N. (2023) Decolonizing Romantic Studies. Cambridge University Press

Carruthers, G. (2023) Robert Burns.

Kirk, T., Sangster, M., Foss, R., Reed, S., Gosling, S. (2023) Fantasy: Realms of Imagination.

Carruthers, G. (2023) Useless and useful: Catholic cultural experience of Scotland. Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 7, pp. 15-30.

Carruthers, G. (2023) Paul Bishop and Robert Burns. Scottish Geographical Journal, 139, pp. 359-362. (doi: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2199712)

Lamont, C. (2023) Robert Burns and Ferenc Puskás: a note on poetry, football and cultural memory. Burns Chronicle, 132, pp. 235-239. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2023.0090)

Carruthers, G., Mackay, P. (2023) A newly discovered manuscript: ‘Twa Neebor-Wives Upon a Time’ Burns Chronicle, 132, pp. 229-234. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2023.0089)

Carruthers, G. (2023) Losing its religion? Scottish literature & confessional identity. Association for Scottish Literature

Lamont, C., Robertson-Kirkland, B. (2023) The Poetry and Drama of Allan Ramsay. Association for Scottish Literatures

Sangster, M. (2023) An Introduction to Fantasy. Cambridge University Press

Carruthers, G. (2023) Scotland in Britain. Cambridge University Press

Sangster, M. (2023) Charles Lamb’s canny career choices. Charles Lamb Bulletin, 177, pp. 42-55.

Kovesi, S. (2023) Iain Sinclair's Edge of the Orison. Haggerston Hound Printworks

Sangster, M. (2023) Urban sublimes. Cambridge University Press

Gillespie, S. (2023) William Popple’s Horatian Epistles: a selection. Translation and Literature, 32, pp. 157-193. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2023.0547)

McCue, K., Mckeever, G. L. (2023) 'Cant about Decorum': George Thomson's singular edition of Robert Burns's 'The Jolly Beggars' Review of English Studies, 74, pp. 684-696. (doi: 10.1093/res/hgad058)

Benchimol, A. (2023) The Press, 1707-1835. Cambridge University Press

Carruthers, G. (2023) Epilogue: The Afterlife of the Enlightenment in Scottish Criticism. Edinburgh University Press

Carruthers, G. (2023) Davis and Sorenson, eds. The International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century. Eighteenth-Century Studies,

Gillespie, S. (2023) Afterword: Prospects for pan-European translation history. De Gruyter

Davis, A. B., Sangster, M. (2023) “Load every rift”: power, opposition, and community in Romantic poetry and heavy metal. European Romantic Review, 34, pp. 291-302. (doi: 10.1080/10509585.2023.2205079)

(2023) Poems of Allan Ramsay. 2,

Gillespie, S. (2023) John Evelyn's Translation of the Dies irae. Translation and Literature, 32, pp. 42-54. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2023.0534)

(2023) Scottish Stories.

Coyer, M. (2023) Romantic autopsy: literary form and medical reading. Review of English Studies, 74, pp. 183-185. (doi: 10.1093/res/hgac088)

Brown, R. (2023) The Scottish Press. Edinburgh University Press

Mee, J., Sangster, M. (2023) Introduction. Edinburgh University Press

(2023) Remediating the 1820s.

McCue, K., Hughes, L. (2023) Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation: a new beginning. Bottle Imp, Sup. 9, pp. 1-1o.

(2023) David Bowie and the Legacies of Romanticism.

de Groote, B., Fulford, T., Sangster, M. (2023) Editors' Introduction: De Quincey's Confessions at 200. Coleridge Bulletin, 62,

Leask, N. (2023) Indo-Persia’s “Alter-Europe” Eighteenth Century, 64, pp. 327-331. (doi: 10.1353/ecy.2023.a950267)

Sangster, M. (2023) Introduction: David Bowie and Romanticism’s wild mutations. Romantic Circles

Sangster, M. (2023) Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731–1814 by Sean D. Moore. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 57, pp. 127-129. (doi: 10.1353/ecs.2023.a909462)

(2023) The Tea-Table Miscellany. IV,

Leask, N. (2023) Water. Romanticism on the Net, 80-81,

Sangster, M. (2023) “I can’t give everything away”: David Bowie and Post-Romantic artistic identity. Romantic Circles

2022

Scott, P., Carruthers, G. (2022) Burns and the Altar of Independence: a question of authentication. Studies in Scottish Literature, 48, pp. 199-206. (doi: 10.51221/suc.ssl.2023.48.2.15)

Scott, P., Young, R. (2022) Robert Burns to Maria Riddell, a lost Burns manuscript and a Victorian facsimile. Studies in Scottish Literature, 48, pp. 207-214. (doi: 10.51221/suc.ssl.2023.48.2.16)

(2022) The Collected Works of Robert Fergusson.

Carruthers, G. (2022) One Night in Paisley, 1822 [Film]

Brown, R. (2022) 1820 in contemporary press account. John Donald

(2022) 1820: Scottish Rebellion: Essays on a Nineteenth-Century Insurrection.

Carruthers, G., Gardner, J. (2022) Finding Alexander Rodger, the Glasgow poet, in 1820. John Donald

Carruthers, G., Marchidanu, M. (2022) In search of the Langloan radicals: Janet Hamilton’s ‘Reminiscences of the Radical Time in 1819–20’ John Donald

Benchimol, A. (2022) Policing the industrial order in the west of Scotland: the Radical War and its aftermath in the Glasgow Herald, 1819-20. John Donald

Carruthers, G., McLean, R. (2022) Did Burns send cannon to France in 1792? – a new theory of the narrative. Burns Chronicle, 131, pp. 139-155. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2022.0054)

Brown, R. (2022) James Currie and John Ramsay of Ochtertyre: new manuscripts. Burns Chronicle, 131, pp. 217-224. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2022.0059)

(2022) The Meeting: Reading and Writing through John Clare. (doi: 10.24384/qna8-yq33)

Pittock, M. (2022) Scotland: the Global History, 1603 to the Present. Yale University Press

Leask, N. (2022) 'Penetrat[ing] the Gloom of Britain's Farthest Glens': A response from the Highlands. Studies in Romanticism, 61, pp. 305-325. (doi: 10.1353/srm.2022.0021)

Porter, D. (2022) Catalogues as instituting genres of the nineteenth-century museum: the two Hunterians. Cambridge University Press

(2022) Institutions of Literature, 1700–1900: The Development of Literary Culture and Production. (doi: 10.1017/9781108909501)

Mee, J., Sangster, M. (2022) Introduction: literature and institutions. Cambridge University Press

Gillespie, S. (2022) William Popple’s Horatian satires: Further texts from the Osborn manuscript. Translation and Literature, 31, pp. 179-229. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2022.0508)

Lamont, C. (2022) Remembering RLS: Stevenson & Cultural Memory. Bottle Imp, 2022,

Benchimol, A. (2022) Print agency and civic press identity across the border: commerce and regional improvement in the Glasgow Advertiser, Liverpool General Advertiser, and the urban directories of Liverpool and Glasgow, 1765-95. Palgrave Macmillan

Pittock, M. (2022) Dress, design: Scottish. SPIN

Baston, K., Sangster, M. (2022) 'D -- d Good': Glasgow University Library Books and their Borrowers in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond.

Jones, T., Philips, J., Romano, K., Kovesi, S. (2022) Melodys of Earth and Sky.

Carruthers, G. (2022) Introduction: critical concerns for Muriel Spark. Association for Scottish Literary Studies

(2022) The Crooked Dividend: Essays on Muriel Spark.

Leask, N., Ó Muircheartaigh, P. (2022) ‘Co-ainm na taca seo an-uiridh’: Dugald MacNicol’s Caribbean Lament for Argyll. Studies in Scottish Literature, 47, pp. 43-68.

Editors:, , Pittock, M., Brown, R., McGuinness, D., Newman, S., Szechi, D., Lamont, C., Robertson-Kirkland, B. E., Caudle, J. J. (2022) Collected Works of Allan Ramsay.

Sangster, M. (2022) Plate 2.25: Palace of Placentia. Vetusta Monumenta: Ancient Monuments, a Digital Edition,

Leask, N. (2022) Travel writing about the Highlands in the nineteenth century. Scottish Literature International

Leask, N. (2022) “Moral Electricity”: William Daniell’s voyage round Great Britain and early topographical representations of the Isle of Skye and the West Highlands. Romanticism on the Net, 79,

2021

Pittock, M. (2021) Scotland and Brexit: The Road to Now. 7, (doi: 10.21825/nise.90268)

Coyer, M. (2021) James Hogg: Contributions to English, Irish, and American Periodicals, ed. by Adrian Hunter, with Barbara Leonardi. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. ISBN 9780748695980. hbk/ebook £80. Scottish Literary Review, 13, pp. 135-138.

Benchimol, A. (2021) From rebellion to reform: representations of regional and civic improvement in the Aberdeen Journal, 1747-85. Northern Scotland, 12, pp. 196-220. (doi: 10.3366/nor.2021.0249)

Carruthers, G. (2021) Defending Privilege: Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel by Nicole Mansfield Wright. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 34, pp. 114-116.

Benchimol, A. (2021) Thomas McGrugar’s ‘Letters of Zeno’: Patriotic Print & Constitutional Improvement in the Caledonian Mercury, 1782-1783. Studies in Scottish Literature, 47, pp. 67-90.

Carruthers, G., Gallagher, K. (2021) A note on Elizabeth Isabella Spence and her Sketches of the Present Manners, Customs, and Scenery of Scotland. Burns Chronicle, 130, pp. 210-214. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2021.0024)

Carruthers, G. (2021) The Wodrow–Kenrick Correspondence 1750–1810 Volume 1: 1750–1783, edited by Martin Fitzpatrick, Emma Macleod, and Anthony Page. Burns Chronicle, 130, pp. 225-228. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2021.0027)

Huser, C., Campbell, S., Fontaine, S., Jamieson, S., Marks, L., Singer, J., Young, R. (2021) Lessons learned from early adopters of blended and online learning. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 9, pp. 137-145. (doi: 10.14297/jpaap.v9i2.488)

McCue, K., Duguid, T. (2021) Singing about Mary: the story of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda.

Carruthers, G. (2021) 'Owners of the Soil' exhibition of work by Will Maclean and Shaun Fraser at the Edinburgh Fine Art Society [Booklet Essay]

McCue, K. (2021) Singing about Mary: Robert Burns and James Hogg.

Kövesi, S., Hamberger, R. (2021) A Length of Road: Interview with Robert Hamberger. John Clare Society Journal, pp. 87-96.

Sangster, M., Baston, K., Aitken, B. (2021) Reconstructing student reading habits in eighteenth-century Glasgow: enlightenment systems and digital reconfigurations. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 54, pp. 935-955. (doi: 10.1353/ecs.2021.0098)

Kovesi, S. (2021) “Lord Byron, poh! the man wot writes the werses?”: John Clare, Byron and Class. Cambridge University Press

McCue, K., Tallack, M., Bicket, L., Jamie, K. (2021) About George.

(2021) An Orkney Tapestry.

Kovesi, S., Philips, J., Jones, T., Romano, K., Searle, W. (2021) John Clare: The Meeting. Poetry and Song.

Cervantes, G., Porter, D. (2021) Walking with John Howard: itineracy and romantic reform. Romanticism, 27, pp. 4-15. (doi: 10.3366/rom.2021.0488)

Gillespie, S. (2021) John Polwhele’s Horatian Translations. Translation and Literature, 30, pp. 52-71. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2021.0445)

Lamont, C. (2021) Stewart & Meikle's The Poetical Miscellany (1800): a problematic Glasgow ‘edition’ of Robert Burns. Burns Chronicle, 130, pp. 59-70. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2021.0006)

Carruthers, G. (2021) Who really wrote the epigram on Edmund Burke attributed to Robert Burns? Burns Chronicle, 130, pp. 111-114. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2021.0012)

Young, R. (2021) 'O what a glorious sight': performing identity and the Burns Supper. Edinburgh University Press

Sangster, M. (2021) Living as an Author in the Romantic Period. Palgrave Macmillan

McCue, K. (2021) Orchestral manoeuvres: Burns on the concert platform, 1879-1959. Edinburgh University Press

Burnett, J., Carruthers, G. (2021) Performance and print in editions of Robert Burns in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Edinburgh University Press

(2021) Performing Robert Burns: Enactments and Representations of the ‘National Bard’

Brown, R. (2021) Robert Burns on the twentieth-century stage. Edinburgh University Press

(2021) Robert Burns's Songs for George Thomson. 4,

Brown, I., Carruthers, G. (2021) The performance of Burns. Edinburgh University Press

Mackay, P. (2021) Burns for Every Day of the Year. Black and White Publishing

(2021) Old Ways New Roads: Travels in Scotland 1720-1830.

Lamont, C. (2021) The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow. Edinburgh University Press

Leask, N. (2021) 'Lost in Words': Macpherson's Ossian, translation, and ballad collection in the eighteenth-century Scottish Gàidhealtachd. inTRAlinea Special Issue: Space in Translation,

Gillespie, S. (2021) After Strada: English responses to Strada’s Nightingale (Prolusiones 2.6), with texts of four previously unprinted versions. Routledge

Gillespie, S. (2021) Early modern Sapphos in France and England. Cambridge University Press

2020

Gillespie, S. (2020) Amateur translators of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Harvard University Press

Lamont, C. (2020) 'Some Few Miles from Edinburgh': commemorating the scenes of The Gentle Shepherd in Ramsay Country. Studies in Scottish Literature, 46, pp. 40-60.

(2020) Allan Ramsay's Future. 46,

Dacome, L., Doherty, M. C., Porter, D., Roby, C. (2020) Special Issue: Unruly Objects: Material Entanglements in the Arts and Sciences [guest editor] Nuncius, 35,

Dacome, L., Doherty, M. C., Porter, D., Roby, C. (2020) Unruly objects: Material entanglements in the arts and sciences: Introduction. Nuncius, 35, pp. 461-470. (doi: 10.1163/18253911-03503018)

(2020) Palgrave Advances in John Clare Studies. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-43374-1)

Coyer, M. (2020) Reading medicine in Blackwood’s. Edinburgh University Press

Dunnigan, S., Carruthers, G. (2020) Scottish Neo-medievalism. Oxford University Press

Gillespie, S. (2020) Imitating the obscene: Henry Higden’s versions of Horace’s Satire 1.2 and Juvenal’s Satire 6. Translation and Literature, 29, pp. 199-219. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2020.0418)

Pittock, M. (2020) The Declaration of Arbroath in Scottish political thought, 1685-1789. Peter Lang

Benchimol, A. (2020) The ‘Spirit of Liberal Reform’: representation, slavery and constitutional liberty in the Glasgow Advertiser, 1789-94. Scottish Historical Review, 99, pp. 51-84. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2020.0434)

Pittock, M. (2020) What happened at Culloden and what happened next? Old Stables Press

Pittock, M. (2020) 'My country takes her place among the nations of the earth': Ireland and the British archipelago in the age of the Union. Cambridge University Press

Leask, N. (2020) Stepping Westward: Writing the Highland Tour, c.1720-1830. Oxford University Press

Brown, R. (2020) "The Bohemian Club": a study of Edinburgh's Cape Club. Bucknell University Press

McCue, K. (2020) 'Sweet the merry bells ring round': John Clare's songs for the drawing room. Palgrave

Pittock, M. (2020) Allan Ramsay: romanticism and reception. Studies in Scottish Literature, 46, pp. 8-21.

Sangster, M., Baston, K., Aitken, B. (2020) Eighteenth-Century Borrowing from the University of Glasgow.

Sangster, M. (2020) Holism and division in dreams of the metropolis. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 31, pp. 424-448.

Carruthers, G. (2020) Losing his religion: the neglected Catholicism of A J Cronin. Studies in Scottish Literature, 45, pp. 42-46.

Brown, R. (2020) Networks of sociability in Allan Ramsay's The Fair Assembly. Studies in Scottish Literature, 46, pp. 22-39.

Sangster, M. (2020) The Romantic Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution by Ian Newman. Keats-Shelley Journal, 69, pp. 174-175.

2019

Carruthers, G., MacLean, R. (2019) A new Janet Hamilton holograph manuscript discovered. Studies in Scottish Literature, 45,

Leask, N. (2019) Philosophical vagabonds: Pedestrianism, politics and improvement on the Scottish tour. Studies in Scottish Literature, 45,

Carruthers, G. (2019) W.S. Graham: ‘Born in a diamond screeched from a mountain pap’ Studies in Scottish Literature, 45,

Pittock, M. (2019) Edinburgh: smart city of 1700. John Donald

Pittock, M., Ambroisine, J. (2019) Robert Burns and the Scottish Economy.

Benchimol, A. (2019) The history of the Scottish press and independence. Sunday National, 8 Sep,

Pittock, M. G.H. (2019) Historiography. Cambridge University Press

Kovesi, S. (2019) Clare, Kelman, and Working-Class Art - an interview with Brian Hammond. The Common Breath,

Brown, R. (2019) Educating the female child: debates from the Scottish periodical press in Enlightenment Scotland, 1750–1800. Scottish Literature International

Sangster, M. (2019) The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth‐Century Home. By Abigail Williams. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press. 2017. x + 351 p. 57 b. and w. illus. £30 (hb). ISBN 978‐0‐300‐20829‐0. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 42, pp. 255-256. (doi: 10.1111/1754-0208.12609)

Leask, N. (2019) Philosophical Vagabonds: Pedestrianism, Politics, and Improvement on the Scottish Tour. University of South Carolina Press

Pittock, M. (2019) Henry Hunt's white hat: the long tradition of mute sedition. Edinburgh University Press

Carruthers, G. (2019) Responses to Peterloo in Scotland, 1819-1822. Edinburgh University Press

Brown, R. (2019) Self-curation, self-editing and audience construction by eighteenth-century Scots vernacular poets. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 42, pp. 157-174. (doi: 10.1111/1754-0208.12605)

Gillespie, S. (2019) Manuscript translations of Italian poetry, c.1650-1825: A miscellany. Translation and Literature, 28, pp. 44-67. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2019.0369)

Leask, N. (2019) Eighteenth-century travel writing. Cambridge University Press

McCue, K. (2019) Romantic National Song Network.

Deans, A. (2019) Andrew McDonald, Laura (1791) Cambridge University Press

Deans, A. (2019) Andrew McDonald, The Independent (1784) Cambridge University Press

Deans, A. (2019) Anon., Hardenbrass and Haverill; Or, The Secret of the Castle (1817) Cambridge University Press

Deans, A. (2019) Anon., Reft Rob; Or The Witch of Scot-Muir, Commonly Called Madge the Snoover (1817) Cambridge University Press

Deans, A. (2019) Anon., The Unfortunate Caledonian in England; Or, The Genuine Memoirs of an Impressed Young Gentleman, in the Year 1779 (1781) Cambridge University Press

Porter, D. (2019) Catalogues for an entropic collection: losses, gains and disciplinary exhaustion in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. BJHS Themes, 4, pp. 215-243. (doi: 10.1017/bjt.2019.15)

Pittock, M., Hsu, L.-h. (2019) Foreword. Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, 13, pp. i-iv.

Deans, A. (2019) George Brewer, The Motto: Or History of Bill Woodcock (1795) Cambridge University Press

Fulford, T., Porter, D. (2019) Introduction: Beddoes and his Bristol Circle. Essays in Romanticism, 26, pp. 105-114. (doi: 10.3828/eir.2019.26.2.3)

Leask, N. (2019) Radical Orientalism: Rights, Reform, and Romanticism. By Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Keats-Shelley Journal, 66, pp. 174-176.

Deans, A. (2019) Rev. James Thomson, Major Piper; Or The Adventures of a Musical Drone (1793) Cambridge University Press

Fulford, T., Porter, D. (2019) Special Issue: Beddoes and his Bristol Circle [guest editor] Essays in Romanticism, 26,

(2019) “Curious Travellers": Dr Johnson and Thomas Pennant on Tour: An Exhibition at Dr Johnson’s House, London, Oct 2018-Jan 2019.

2018

Benchimol, A. (2018) Agenda: the debt that is owed to The Herald's founding editor. Herald, 6 Dec, pp. 15.

Pittock, M. (2018) Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh's Civic Development, 1660-1750. Edinburgh University Press

Pittock, M. (2018) The Scottish Heritage Partnership Immersive Experiences: Policy Report.

Carruthers, G. (2018) William Angus McIlvanney [Obituary] Burns Chronicle, 2017, pp. 139-141.

Gillespie, S. (2018) An unrecorded critical response to Pope’s Imitations of Horace by William Popple, c. 1755. Translation and Literature, 27, pp. 319-346. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2018.0354)

Kövesi, S. (2018) ‘Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? / Or Love in a golden bowl?’ On not defending the humanities. D. S. Brewer

Brown, R. (2018) Elizabeth Scot, nee Rutherford (1729-89) Edinburgh University Press

McCue, K. (2018) The culture of song. Oxford University Press

Lamont, C. (2018) Urban history and public life on the Lawnmarket, 1707-1934. National Trust for Scotland

Lamont, C. (2018) Urban history and public life on the Lawnmarket, c. 1560-1707. National Trust for Scotland

Sangster, M. (2018) Conceptions of knowledge in William Hunter's library. Yale University Press

Sangster, M. (2018) The 1820s: Innovation and Diffusion.

Pittock, M. (2018) Oxford Bibliographies Online: The Highlands. (doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199846719-0029)

Newton, J., Ramage, G., Gadegaard, N., Zachs, W., Rogers, S., Barrett, M. P., Carruthers, G., Burgess, K. (2018) Minimally-destructive atmospheric ionisation mass spectrometry authenticates authorship of historical manuscripts. Scientific Reports, 8, (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-28810-2)

Gillespie, S. (2018) Petronius on dreams: 300 years of English translations. Translation and Literature, 27, pp. 195-222. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2018.0338)

Young, R. (2018) 'The Book of Maybees is very Braid': Ramsay's collection of Scots Proverbs and Enlightenment print culture. Scottish Literary Review, 10, pp. 19-48.

Lamont, C. (2018) Allan Ramsay & Edinburgh: commemoration in the city of forgetting. Scottish Literary Review, 10, pp. 117-137.

Sangster, M. (2018) Kevin Gilmartin (ed.), Sociable Places: Locating Culture in Romantic-Period Britain. Review of English Studies, 69, pp. 589-592. (doi: 10.1093/res/hgx121)

Hansen, M., Smith, D. J., Carruthers, G. (2018) Mood disorder in the personal correspondence of Robert Burns: testing a novel inter-disciplinary approach. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 48, pp. 165-174. (doi: 10.4997/JRCPE.2018.212)

Porter, D. (2018) Science, Form, and the Problem of Induction in British Romanticism. Cambridge University Press

Gillespie, S. (2018) ‘Horace’s Letter of Invitation’: A newly discovered Horatian imitation by Allan Ramsay. Scottish Literary Review, 10, pp. 159-168.

Brown, R. (2018) The afterlives of Allan Ramsay in the British Periodical Press, 1720-1870. Scottish Literary Review, 10, pp. 95-115.

Benchimol, A., McKeever, G. L. (2018) Introduction: mapping cultures of improvement in Scottish Romanticism. Routledge

Coyer, M. (2018) Medicine and improvement in the Scots Magazine; and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, 1804-17. Routledge

Mackay, P. (2018) 'In Bawdy Policy Well-Gifted': Allan Ramsay, Bawdry and the Reformation of Manners. Scottish Literary Review, 10, pp. 73-94.

(2018) Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840.

Benchimol, A. (2018) Let Scotland flourish by the printing of the word: commerce, civic enlightenment and national improvement in the Glasgow Advertiser, 1783-1800. Routledge

Deans, A. (2018) Pastoral optimism at Enlightenment's Frontier: James Hogg's Highland Journeys. Routledge

Kovesi, S. (2018) Five Questions: Simon Kövesi on John Clare: Nature, Criticism and History (interview with Matthew Sangster) BARS website,

Deans, A. (2018) Moral surveillance after Malthus. Routledge

Carruthers, G. (2018) Revisiting Radical Renfrew and the Anthologising of Scotland’s Regions.

(2018) Newly Recovered English Classical Translations 1600-1800. (doi: 10.1093/actrade/9780198705574.book.1)

Brown, R. (2018) Scotland, Britain, Europe: parallels with Eighteenth-Century political debate. Scottish Affairs, 27, pp. 54-62. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2018.0223)

Benchimol, A., Schlesinger, P. (2018) Special Issue: 1707 and 2014: The National Press, Civil Society and Constitutional Identity in Scotland [Guest Editors] Scottish Affairs, 27,

(2018) The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns: Volume II and III: The Scots Musical Museum. Oxford University Press

The Multigraph Collective, (2018) Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation. University of Chicago Press

Benchimol, A., Schlesinger, P. (2018) Introduction: 1707, 2014 and the constitutional imperative in Scotland’s national press and civil society. Scottish Affairs, 27, pp. 1-10. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2018.0217)

Carruthers, G. (2018) Jacobite Unionism. Oxford University Press

Carruthers, G., Kidd, C. (2018) Literature and Union: Scottish Texts, British Contexts. (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198736233.001.0001)

Carruthers, G. (2018) Postscript: the strange death of literary Unionism. Oxford University Press

Lamont, C. (2018) Cultivating the classics “in a cold climate”: the Foulis Press & Academy in Glasgow. Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 13, pp. 45-66.

Pittock, M. (2018) Editorial. Scottish Literary Review, 10, pp. v-vi.

Porter, D. (2018) Epistemic images and vital nature: Darwin's Botanic Garden as image text book. European Romantic Review, 29, pp. 295-308. (doi: 10.1080/10509585.2018.1465717)

Porter, D. (2018) John Langhorne's Frederic and Pharamond, Or, The Consolations of Human Life (1769) Cambridge University Press

Porter, D. (2018) John Langhorne's Letters to Eleonora (1770-1) Cambridge University Press

Porter, D. (2018) John Langhorne's Solyman and Almena (1762) Cambridge University Press

Porter, D. (2018) John Langhorne's The Effusions of Friendship and Fancy (1763) Cambridge University Press

Porter, D. (2018) John Langhorne's The letters that passed between Theodosius to Constantia; after she had taken the veil (1763) Cambridge University Press

Gillespie, S. (2018) Newly Recovered English Classical Translations 1600-1800: Annexe.

Carruthers, G. (2018) Postscript: Varieties of cultural improvement in the long eighteenth century. Routledge

Benchimol, A. (2018) The Scottish press, the Union and civil society after 1707: the Glasgow Advertiser and the General Assembly Test Act debate of 1790. Scottish Affairs, 27, pp. 82-91. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2018.0226)

Leask, N. (2018) Thomas Pennant, national description, and the project of improvement. Routledge

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Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies at Glasgow comprises a significant concentration of world-leading scholars. We have hosted a series of major international conferences, symposia and workshops, including two meetings of the British Association for Romantic Studies (in 2011 and 2024). We have received funding for a range of major collaborative projects, recently including Arts and Humanities Research Council support for the two phases of the Curious Travellers project and the Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830 project. We regularly host prestigious funded fellowships and scholarships. Much research in this cluster focuses on Scottish themes, and thus links with work undertaken in Scottish Literature, notably through the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, and within the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies. Colleagues also play key roles in the Medical Humanities Research Centre and the College's Collections Lab.  Knowledge exchange is an important element of the cluster’s research, working with institutions including the Mitchell Library, the National Library of Scotland and the University’s own Hunterian Art Gallery. The cluster includes a strong cohort of doctoral researchers, supported by the University’s world-class Archives and Special Collections holdings in eighteenth-century and Romantic-period material.