PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Media
Cordula Lemke
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Today's image of Scotland is still dominated by the myth of peaty and moss-covered Highlands and their tartan-wearing inhabitants who entertain weary travellers with tales of ghosts and murderers. These apparently old and authentic traditions can often be traced back to the need to create a Scottish national identity in the eighteenth century and many of them were reshaped and invented by the highly prolific writer Sir Walter Scott who can indeed be seen as one of the main sources of this mythical image of Scotland – or “Scott-land”. Not only have these inventions found their way into the novels of Scott’s time, but their legacy still remains today. In this seminar we will look at the myth of Charles Edward Stuart, or Bonnie Prince Charlie that Scott created at the beginning of the nineteenth century, at how it affects the image of Charles and the Jacobites today and how and whether Scott’s myth is contested by today’s rewritings in literature, in films and in TV series.
Please purchase the following texts (no e-books!):
- Walter Scott, Waverley (Penguin Classics)
- Alan Warner, Nothing Left to Fear from Hell
- Barbara Henderson, The Reluctant Rebel
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16 Class schedule
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