Gerard McKeever
Scottish Literature, Regionalism, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Book History
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- Reposted by Gerard McKeeverRecorded on 4 Sept 2025 – Dr Gerard McKeever, lecturer in modern Scottish literature at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, speaks about Walter Scott’s relationship with Scotland, particularly through the lens of his so-called “Scotch Novels” #C19th #romanticism www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvr...
- Huge congrats to the wonderful @cleoocy.bsky.social who passed her viva today with no corrections!
- Just watched There Will Be Blood for the first time in about ten years. Holy mackerel, what an unbelievable film. Had forgotten quite how unhinged Day-Lewis’s character is.
- Went on a holiday and it was totally awesome
- Reposted by Gerard McKeeverIDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
- I like the Pope, the Pope says nope
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- Normalise writing a nice quick note to scholars literally every time you read and like their work. Our world is small and getting smaller. We need encouragement.
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- Key lime time
- Email I received from a senior colleague at Berkeley this week opened ‘Greetings from the anarcho-neofascist hellscape!’ … thoughts are with everyone in the US 🙏
- Reposted by Gerard McKeeverA new Five Questions interview up on the BARS Blog (@bars.bsky.social) - @mckeever.bsky.social on his new monograph, Regional Romanticism: Literature and Southwest Scotland, c.1770–1830: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5944.
- 🔥🔥🔥 Some much needed good news at last!: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427...
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- Fellowship opportunity here at Edinburgh for unaffiliated ECRs in C19 studies. Very happy to chat to anyone who’s interested in applying.
- Reposted by Gerard McKeeverBig news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜 thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
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- I’m collecting literary maps relating to Scotland for a thing. A few examples here. If anyone has suggestions for others, I’d love to hear them 🙏
- Spare a thought for the Burns scholar on Burns night, wincing in the corner with his precious little facts.
- Truly among the worst things about living in the British countryside is the regular encounters with aggressive dogs, off the lead, frequently with the owner nowhere in sight. When (if) owner appears, they invariably expect you to adopt a fondly understanding attitude to their terrifying pet.
- Does anyone know of book history/bibliographical work that imagines books as actors in the terms of actor-network theory?
- The greatest trick the devil ever pulled is convincing literary scholars that a 35-year-ish Romantic Period is somehow equivalent to the whole of other centuries, and like 1,000 years of medieval history.
- Reposted by Gerard McKeeverApplications are now open for 2025-26 Fellowships at IASH, with 60 places available! Apply here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/application-... Senior/mid-career programmes close 28 Feb. Postdoctoral/early-career programmes close 25 April. See our Fellowship pages for details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/fellowship-p...
- This v interesting 1787 edition of Robert Burns’s poems has been brutally washed in solvent, probably by a lateC19 collector. This results in super clean pages but also a kind of cancelled, ghost marginalia that has been almost washed away. It’s like the book has repressed memories of a former life
- 30 years old this year. Still the most important Scottish novel since Lanark.
- So the word ‘month’ is essentially ‘moonth’, a lunar cycle. How did I never notice that before?
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- Reposted by Gerard McKeeverIf you are an academic writing on any aspect or period of Scottish Literature, please consider submitting an article to the peer-reviewed journal SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW. Published twice a year by @scotlit.bsky.social, the journal is edited by me and the very excellent @rhonabrown.bsky.social
- My new book is out in the world! It advocates a new, regional way of thinking about Scottish literature and Romanticism. It’s been a labour of love that’s seen me through two babies and a global pandemic, can’t wait to hear what people take from it 🙏 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
