Restoring the Restoration: Thomas Sydserf's Life and Works (c.1624-89)

托马斯·瑟夫（或圣·瑟夫）被描述为“一个人的文化运动”。在17世纪中期“文化贫瘠”的苏格兰，他创作了两本法语译本；可能是第一份苏格兰报纸；一大堆稀奇古怪的小册子；他还在自己的爱丁堡剧场（可能是苏格兰第一家现代剧院）上演了一出戏剧。作为一名坚定的保皇党人，他也曾在著名的蒙特罗斯麾下服役。我的博士学位将提供第一个对Sydserf全部作品的总结性研究，通过询问他为什么写作以及他认为在剧变时期文学可以做什么来评估他在苏格兰文学史上的地位。

Thomas Sydserf (or St. Serfe) has been described as 'a one-man cultural movement'. In a 'culturally barren' midseventeenth-century Scotland, he produced: two translations from French; potentially the first-ever Scottish newspaper; an array of weird and wonderful pamphlets; and a play, which he staged at his Edinburgh playhouse (itself probably Scotland's first modern theatre). A staunch royalist, he also served under the famous Montrose. My PhD will provide the first summative study of Sydserf's entire oeuvre, assessing his place in Scottish literary history by asking why he wrote and what he imagined literature, in times of great upheaval, could do.