Impossible Antiquities: Scottish Enlightenment Nationalist Identities And Reactions To Historical Revisionism

摘要：关于过去的叙事如何影响自我认知的讨论越来越多，这就需要对历史修正主义以及读者如何接受和反应修正主义文学进行新的审视。这个项目将通过调查托马斯·英尼斯1729年的作品《关于整个18世纪英国北部或苏格兰古代居民的批判性散文》来探讨这一主题。Innes(1762-1744)是一名天主教牧师和历史学家，他一生的大部分时间都在巴黎度过，他使用对文献证据的新分析来挑战这样一种观点，即斯图尔特君主制有一个不间断的血统，可以追溯到古代，这是对历史的挑衅性解读，使苏格兰身份的一个关键方面复杂化。这个项目将调查18世纪中后期对Innes历史叙事的挑战，特别是关注他们的智力和宗教背景以及他们收到的回应。通过仔细阅读这些以出版作品和私人信件的形式作出的批判性回应，将探索其作者的意识形态，并将其与最近关于身份形成和早期现代世界的国家的学术联系起来。现有文献总结和本项目的贡献：该项目必然是跨学科的，因此值得注意几个相关领域的现有文献。从苏格兰历史开始，虽然已经有一些关于托马斯·英尼斯的著作(收藏在爱丁堡大学图书馆的莱恩收藏)的工作，但主要集中在它们对雅各布派事业的意义，保持了对苏格兰的关注，在很大程度上忽视了它们的国际背景。因此，除了凯尔西·杰克逊·威廉姆斯的新书《第一次苏格兰启蒙运动》之外，同时代人对这些作品的接受几乎没有受到关注。叛逆者、牧师和历史，其中强调了因尼斯的著作的重要性以及他们的历史背景和一些例子，他们是如何在他们的时代接受。然而，这个项目将进一步深入研究英尼斯在他自己的时代(杰克逊·威廉姆斯的名义上的《第一次苏格兰启蒙运动》)以及在接下来的几十年里受到的欢迎。关于启蒙运动苏格兰身份的进一步背景，我将引用科林·基德的《颠覆苏格兰的过去》和罗杰·A·梅森的《王权与公益》等作品。然而，这些书没有对因尼斯的影响进行足够彻底的调查，因此它们没有提供对他在苏格兰历史修正主义中所扮演的角色的全面考察。同样，Innes创作他作品的法国天主教环境在多大程度上塑造了他的思想，值得更多关注。

Abstract: Growing discourse on how narratives of the past influence self-perception necessitates new examinations of historical revisionism and how readers receive and react to revisionist literature. This project will approach this topic by investigating the critical reception of Thomas Innes' 1729 piece, A Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Northern Parts of Britain, or Scotland throughout the eighteenth century. A Catholic priest and historian who spent most of his life in Paris, Innes (1762-1744) used new analysis of documentary evidence to challenge the idea that the Stuart monarchy had an uninterrupted lineage stretching into antiquity, a provocative reading of history which complicated a key facet of Scottish identity. This project will investigate mid and late-eighteenth century challenges to Innes's historical narrative, particularly focusing on their intellectual and religious contexts and the responses which they received. Through a close reading of these critical responses in the form of both published works and private correspondences, the ideologies of their authors will be explored and connected to recent scholarship on identity formation and the nation in the early modern world.Summary of existing literature and this project's contribution:This project would necessarily be interdisciplinary in nature, and so it is worth noting the existing literature in several relevant fields. Beginning with the area of Scottish history, while there has been some work done on Thomas Innes' writings (housed in the University of Edinburgh Library's Laing collection), it has predominantly focused on their significance to the Jacobite cause, maintaining a Scottish focus and largely neglecting their international context. As a result, the reception of these writings by contemporaries has received little attention with the exception of Kelsey Jackson Williams' recent book, The First Scottish Enlightenment. Rebels, Priests, and History, which underscores the significance of Innes' writings as well as their historical context and some examples of how they were received in their time. This project, however, would delve further into Innes' reception both within his own time (Jackson Williams' titular "First Scottish Enlightenment") and throughout the following decades. For further context on Enlightenment Scottish identity I will draw on works such as Colin Kidd's Subverting Scotland's Past and Roger A. Mason's Kingship and the Commonweal. These books, however, do not include sufficiently thorough investigations of Innes' influences, and so they fall short of providing a comprehensive examination of his role in Scottish historical revisionism. Similarly, the degree to which the French Catholic environment in which Innes produced his writings shaped his thinking deserves more focused attention.