1st Edition

Clan-Albin: A National Tale by Christian Isobel Johnstone

Edited By Juliet Shields
612 Pages
by Routledge

Christian Isobel Johnstone’s Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815, less than a year after Walter Scott’s Waverley; or ‘tis Sixty Years Since enthralled readers and initiated a craze for Scottish novels. Both as a novelist and as editor of Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine from 1834 to 1846, Johnstone was a powerful figure in Romantic Edinburgh’s literary scene. But her works and her... Read more

Volume I

Introduction

Further Reading

Clan-Albin: A National Tale volume I & II

Volume II

Clan-Albin: A National Tale volume III & VI

Editorial Notes

Biography

Juliet Shields is Professor of English at the University of Washington, where she teaches courses in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, women’s writing, postcolonial studies, and diaspora studies. She is the author of Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity (Cambridge UP 2010) and Nation and Migration: the Making of British Atlantic Literature (Oxford UP 2016); and co-editor of two volumes of essays, Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1640-1830 (Ashgate 2013), and Migration and Modernity: the state of being stateless, 1750-1850 (Edinburgh UP 2019).