Sympathy for Barbarians: The Jacobite Uprising in Scott’s Waverley and Stevenson’s Kidnapped

Abstract

Denne oppgaven omhandler hvordan Jacobitt-opprøret i 1745-1746 har blitt drøftet i Skotsk literatur, henholdsvis i Walter Scott's Waverly og Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped.

This BA argues how the highlanders are presented as primitive underdogs in comparison to the modern lowlanders and Englishmen in the novels Waverly and Kidnapped, and how the Jacobites, despite their primitive portrayal, are treated in a sympathetic manner as a rebellion against modernism