苏格兰浪漫主义和Jacobites

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| By Clematis Delany |

一个国王,没有宝座,一个潇洒的年轻的王子,和流亡的军队。詹姆斯党的这些基本组成部分 - 与一些飘渺的湖泊,崎岖的高地,图谋天主教徒和宫廷抛出 - 完美地借给自己高浪漫和冒险。这是毫不奇怪那么,斯图亚特王朝及其党人支持者早期浪漫主义苏格兰提供了灵感,在作家,如沃尔特·斯科特爵士和罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森,罗伯特·彭斯的诗歌和流行曲喜欢的作品明显The Skye Boat Song. With a core narrative of brave young men fighting a doomed cause against an oppressive regime, (particularly embodied in the merciless Duke of Cumberland), the stories surrounding the two Jacobite risings remain popular today, as the recent success of Diana Gabaldon’s局外人系列历史小说的显示。

查尔斯·爱德华·斯图尔特,1749年五月印刷诗RA / SP /盒/ 3/2 f.37。

这样的故事往往会1745后停止不久,因为“小王子查理”的衰落成一个偏执和暴力醉有点短合法的继承人帆船关闭斯凯承诺的下降。同样地,常年金钱的烦恼和内斗詹姆斯党法院不让它变成故事,如韦弗利Kidnapped.

Clementina Walkinshaw to Charles Edward Stuart, 13 February 1761. Clementina met Charles in 1745, was the mother of his daughter Charlotte and had by 1761 fled the violent prince. RA/SP/main/405 f.187a.
James ‘III’ comments on feuding at the Court in exile in Rome. James to Lord Mar, 9 November 1719. RA/SP/main/45 f.87.

在另一方面,增加了浪漫的旋向传奇是詹姆斯党的现代部分,特别是在苏格兰,在那里部族生活的传统权力和方式受到威胁,并最终打破,由汉诺威君主。敬酒“王过水”,装饰玻璃器皿和珠宝党人符号,如加冕荆棘和白色的玫瑰,和身穿白色帽徽是詹姆斯党文化的所有元素。拒绝汉诺威君主为斯图尔特的房子也送入苏格兰宗教,民族主义和反对苏格兰和英格兰的联盟反叛的时代课题 - 斯图亚特密切与苏格兰联系,并进行了周密的维护流亡这个环节,为苏格兰提供了一个依据在起义和恢复的整个18世纪所有的方案的支持。

即将推出的除了大风的金宝搏彩票State Papers Onlineseries,The Stuart and Cumberland Papers from the Royal Archives, Windsor, illustrates the origins of Scottish Romanticism in Jacobitism in many ways, but particularly through narratives of the risings of 1715 and 1745, and in the collected poems of Jacobite supporters. Two journals from the rising of 1745 sing the praises of Charles Edward, later known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, and paint him in a very favorable light, emphasizing his popularity with the Scottish people and his own bravery and endurance while on the run after the Battle of Culloden had been lost in 1746.

王子酒店的前台在苏格兰的约翰·奥沙利文先生的账户,C有关。四月1747 RA / SP / m / 8个F.18

在1746叙述,复制从手稿上的卡梅伦夫人发现当她于1748年被捕途中巴黎,查尔斯出现在一个非常英勇的模具,穿着格子呢,睡在裸露的地面,并勇敢地通过高地做他的方式充满了汉诺威士兵。

Journal of the Young Pretender, 1746. RA/CP/main/69 XI.41.18

斯图亚特王朝和他们的事业的最明显的赞美总是难免,艺术和象征意义,如雨后春笋般四处进去。虽然早期的诗二世党人都对他们的热情比他们舞文弄墨更为显着,他们表现出了后来浪漫复兴的根源在于他们的英雄,他们对失地向往,和斯图亚特王朝的神权重新抬头。詹姆斯·弗朗西斯·爱德华,老伪装,显示为一个痛苦的英雄和美德的典范。

“让英国拥有自己的injur'd主/和每一个祝福光荣的日子/那把他带回家那遥远。”詹姆斯·默里,C。1721. RA / SP /盒/ 3/2 F.9

Charles likewise received many tributes, particularly in the years surrounding 1745, such as this solemn acrostic:

RA / SP /盒/ 3/2 F.21。在信件,1744束。

Perhaps it was a good thing for Romanticism that the Jacobites never were restored; a young prince fighting for his birthright is an undeniably Romantic image and fertile ground for any writer, and the practical realities of a new monarch could hardly fail to fall short of such idealized notions. Had the Stuarts returned, literature, as well as politics, might have taken a very different road. On the other hand, this would also have meant some of the lyrical flights of the Jacobite poets would most likely have gone unwritten, sparing the world some truly execrable verse…

A New Ballad, to any Tune that will fit it. RA/SP/box/3/2 f.59. ‘Old England I lament the case/ To play so low a Farce/ Who Once cou’d look thy Foes in Face/ But now must Kiss their A—se’.

Please note: All sources mentioned are available in the digital archiveState Papers Online: The Stuart and Cumberland Papers from the Royal Archives, Windsor.

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  1. Very interesting, and no doubt had the Bonnie Prince been successful, he would most likely have turned his back on the Geals for the delights of London society. But what of Cumberland? What was he really like? I have a vague notion of a fat, egotistical, spoilt great of a man, not to mention a heartless murderer! Or was he really a lovely chap?

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