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

托马斯·赛德瑟夫(又称圣瑟夫)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，他制作了两个法语译本；可能是有史以来第一份苏格兰报纸；一系列奇怪而精彩的小册子；以及一部戏剧，他在爱丁堡剧院(本身可能是苏格兰第一家现代剧院)上演了这部戏剧。作为一名坚定的保皇派，他也曾在著名的蒙特罗斯手下服役。我的博士学位将对赛德瑟夫的全部作品进行第一次总结性研究，通过询问他为什么写作以及他想象的文学在大动荡时期能做些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.