Loyalty and Identity: Jacobites at Home and Abroad

by Paul Kléber Monod, Murray Pittock, Daniel Szechi

This collection of essays provides a series of fresh approaches to a fascinating subject: Jacobitism. The contributors focus on issues of identity and memory among Jacobites in Scotland, Ireland, England and Europe. They examine Jacobitism as an integral aspect of culture and society in the British Isles and beyond during the century after 1688.

269 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 27, 2009

Reviews

[Sean Chick · Rating 3 out of 5]

I sort of hate rating this so lowly, but so many of the essays are obscure and esoteric and I kept wondering "who cares?" That said it is not a waste, it is just meant for the specialist.

[Robert D. Cornwall · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting collection of essays that starts with a programmatic essay by Jonathan Clark, who is always a provocative read. I enjoyed the piece by Paul Monod that looks at the Jacobite/Nonjuror antiquarian/historian Thomas Carte who envisioned the Druids as proto nonjurors.

But, for my purposes, the essay by Ian Higgins on the relationship of Charles Leslie and Jonathan Swift is most important.

In any case, this is a fitting festschrift for Eveline Cruickshanks.