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Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland

Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland

McGill, Martha

Hardcover

Series: Scottish Historical Review Monograph Second, Book 2

Religion General Mythology & FolkloreBritish History

ISBN10: 1783273623
ISBN13: 9781783273621
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: Nov 18 2018
Pages: 266
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
An examination of how and why Scotland gained its reputation for the supernatural, and how belief continued to flourish in a supposed Age of Enlightenment.

SHORTLISTED for the Katharine Briggs Award 2019

Scotland is famed for being a haunted nation, whare ghaists and houlets nightly cry. Medieval Scots told stories of restless souls and walking corpses, but after the 1560Reformation, witches and demons became the focal point for explorations of the supernatural. Ghosts re-emerged in scholarly discussion in the late seventeenth century, often in the guise of religious propagandists. As time went on, physicians increasingly reframed ghosts as the conjurations of disturbed minds, but gothic and romantic literature revelled in the emotive power of the returning dead; they were placed against a backdrop of ancient monasteries, castles and mouldering ruins, and authors such as Robert Burns, James Hogg and Walter Scott drew on the macabre to colour their depictions of Scottish life. Meanwhile, folk culture used apparitions to talk about morality and mortality.

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