The Gentle Shepherd, The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay

Sheila M. Kidd in relation to the nineteenth-century diaspora. Chapters on travel writing address both the genre’s construction of Scotland and Scottish travelers abroad, while Thomas C. Richardson discusses the Scottish short story’s influence in North America. Eric Gidal reads a “range of poetic and cultural responses to a globalising economy” and its environmental effects in Burns, Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir and—most intriguingly —James Thomson (260). Beyond the specifics of individual contributions, the consistent questioning of literary chronologies and hierarchies which takes place across these volumes is bound up with the imperative to view Scottish literature in its global context. To return a final time to Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism, that book urges us to