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• W18574435 abstract "The representation of Scots is an important aspect of several neglected early Ulster novels. In John Gamble's Charlton and James McHenry's O'Halloran, writers use Scots for a number of aesthetic and political reasons. Scots is used in subtle and complex ways to articulate a distinctive Ulster Presbyterian identity and is connected to popular radical politics of region in 1790s.Keywords: Ulster Scots, dialect, national tale, John Gamble, James McHenry.The study of representation of Scots in literary texts is a complex area fraught with paradox and tension. In his colourful study of Bums and Scots, Jeffrey Skoblow concludes that, for many readers, Scots paradoxically beckons kinship and resists recognition (Skoblow 2001: 20). However, it is not just that Scots connects certain speech communities to exclusion of non-speakers, rather use of Scots in literary texts can have effect of simultaneously evoking feelings of affiliation and alienation. Even for those who speak a variety of Scots experience of reading it on printed page can be unfamiliar and disconcerting. Another dimension of elusive, paradoxical nature of Scots is reflected in criticism on writing in Scots. Emma Letley, for example, in her study of Scots in novels of Walter Scott, argues that the troubled history of Scots means that its use in fiction can be a gesture of resistance, a political, nationalist reproach against Union, against London, and against ascendancy of Standard English (Letley 1988: 6). Derrick McClure, however reaches a different conclusion when he suggests that in Scott's novels there is none whatsoever of European linkage between language and nationalism and that it is best a defiant proclamation of an enduring cultural distinctiveness (McClure 2000: 10). There is a tension regarding significance of Scots here: is it an act of political resistance or does it eschew political engagement? This political elusiveness and ambivalence is fairly typical in Scots writing which has historically oscillated between and sometimes mischievously combined vigorous nationalist sentiment and a parochial or mstic naivety that seems disengaged from politics. A further complexity inherent in representation of Scots derives from porous nature of language; thus Corbett suggests that what we are dealing with, when considering Scots and English, are not two monolithic and distinct systems, but a range of varieties that sometimes diverge, but nevertheless have much in common (Corbett 1997: 6).Such considerations and tensions were not only visible in Scottish writing, but in literature of Ulster. This essay will explore political significance of Scots in two neglected early nineteenthcentury Ulster novels and comment on decisions that two authors made regarding representation of Scots. These novels, James McHenry's The Insurgent Chief and John Gamble's Charlton, have obvious grounds for comparison: both were set in Ulster during 1798 rebellion and seek to revisit and explain Ulster's recent political upheavals and traumas, both are also generically and stylistically indebted to Walter Scott's historical novels and both use Scots in dialogue. Both were published outside of Ulster in 1823; Gamble's text was published in London, whilst McHenry's was published in Philadelphia, where he had emigrated some years earlier. The plots too have much in common. In The Insurgent Chief Barrymore, a young Dubliner from a staunchly establishment family journeys to radical Ulster and becomes entangled in political contention of region. During his adventures he grows to respect O'Halloran, ultimately defeated insurgent chief of title, and culture of Ulster Presbyterians that he finds himself amongst. He also finds love with Ellen Hamilton, granddaughter of O'Halloran, whom he marries at conclusion of novel. John Gamble's Charlton tells story of eponymous young Ulsterman, a moderate and educated Presbyterian, who becomes reluctantly embroiled in United Irish rebellion. …" @default.
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• W18574435 title "Scots in Two Early Ulster Novels" @default.
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