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Chapter 5 - Reading the 1745 Jacobite Rising

“Transitory News-papers,” “Fleeting Pamphlets” and Knots of Cultural Memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2022

Leith Davis
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
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Chapter 5 examines in the 1745 Jacobite Rising in the context of the expansion of the periodical press and the print marketplace in the mid-eighteenth century. Information about the events of the 1745 Rising was made available to readers in a more continuous and a more pervasive way than during the 1715 Rising. The chapter explores how this expanding circulation of information prompted greater concern not just about the trustworthiness of the genres of the newspaper and the political pamphlet but also about how citizens were consuming information. It next focuses on three genres of printed works produced after the Battle of Culloden (1746) that reworked newspaper reports into their narratives: accounts of the trials and executions of the rebels, “Chevalier” or “Pretender” narratives about the escape of Charles Edward Stuart, and popular histories. With their conscious and unconscious intertextual borrowings, these printed works, like those of the 1715 Rising, inscribe the cultural memory of the 1745 as a series of complicated knots of memory.

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Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising
, pp. 200 - 248
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Reading the 1745 Jacobite Rising
  • Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
  • Book: Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
  • Online publication: 10 March 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039765.006
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  • Reading the 1745 Jacobite Rising
  • Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
  • Book: Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039765.006
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  • Reading the 1745 Jacobite Rising
  • Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
  • Book: Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
  • Online publication: 10 March 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039765.006
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