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Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print General Editors: Professor Anne K. Mellor and Professor Clifford Siskin Editorial Board: Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck & IES; John Bender, Stanford; Alan Bewell, Toronto; Peter de Bolla, Cambridge; Robert Miles, Victoria; Claudia L. Johnson, Princeton; Saree Makdisi, UCLA; Felicity Nussbaum, UCLA; Mary Poovey, NYU; Janet Todd, Cambridge Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print will feature work that does not fit comfortably within established boundaries – whether between peri- ods or between disciplines. Uniquely, it will combine efforts to engage the power and materiality of print with explorations of gender, race and class. By attending as well to intersections of literature with the visual arts, medicine, law and science, the series will enable a large-scale rethinking of the origins of modernity. Titles include: Melanie Bigold WOMEN OF LETTERS, MANUSCRIPT CIRCULATION, AND PRINT AFTERLIVES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn, and Elizabeth Carter Ildiko Csengei SYMPATHY, SENSIBILITY AND THE LITERATURE OF FEELING IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Noah Comet ROMANTIC HELLENISM AND WOMEN WRITERS Alexander Dick ROMANTICISM AND THE GOLD STANDARD Money, Literature, and Economic Debate in Britain 1790–1830 Elizabeth Eger BLUESTOCKINGS Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism Ina Ferris and Paul Keen (editors) BOOKISH HISTORIES Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700–1900 John Gardner POETRY AND POPULAR PROTEST Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy George C. Grinnell THE AGE OF HYPOCHONDRIA Interpreting Romantic Health and Illness Anthony S. Jarrells BRITAIN’S BLOODLESS REVOLUTIONS 1688 and the Romantic Reform of Literature Emrys Jones FRIENDSHIP AND ALLEGIANCE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE The Politics of Private Virtue in the Age of Walpole Jacqueline M. Labbe WRITING ROMANTICISM Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth, 1784–1807 Michelle Levy FAMILY AUTHORSHIP AND ROMANTIC PRINT CULTURE April London LITERARY HISTORY WRITING, 1770–1820 Robert Miles ROMANTIC MISFITS Robert Morrison and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts (editors) ROMANTICISM AND BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE ‘An Unprecedented Phenomenon’ Catherine Packham EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY VITALISM Bodies, Culture, Politics Nicola Parsons READING GOSSIP IN EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND Murray Pittock MATERIAL CULTURE AND SEDITION, 1688–1760 Treacherous Objects, Secret Places Jessica Richard THE ROMANCE OF GAMBLING IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL Andrew Rudd SYMPATHY AND INDIA IN BRITISH LITERATURE, 1770–1830 Sharon Ruston CREATING ROMANTICISM Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s Erik Simpson LITERARY MINSTRELSY, 1770–1830 Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish and American Literature Anne H. Stevens BRITISH HISTORICAL FICTION BEFORE SCOTT David Stewart ROMANTIC MAGAZINES AND METROPOLITAN LITERARY CULTURE Rebecca Tierney-Hynes NOVEL MINDS Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680–1740 P. Westover NECROMANTICISM Travelling to Meet the Dead, 1750–1860 Esther Wohlgemut ROMANTIC COSMOPOLITANISM Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Series Standing Order ISBN 978–1–4039–3408–6 hardback 978–1–4039–3409–3 paperback (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and one of the ISBNs quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England Material Culture and Sedition, 1688–1760 Treacherous Objects, Secret Places Murray Pittock Bradley Professor of English Literature, University of Glasgow palgrave macmillan © Murray Pittock 2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-27808-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. 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To the memory of my mother, Joan MacCormack, and the practice of Cultural History Also by Murray Pittock THE MYTH OF THE JACOBITE CLANS: The Jacobite Army in 1745 SCOTTISH AND IRISH ROMANTICISM JACOBITISM INVENTING AND RESISTING BRITAIN POETRY AND JACOBITE POLITICS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN AND IRELAND THE INVENTION OF SCOTLAND JAMES BOSWELL LOYALTY AND IDENTITY (co-editor) Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xiii 1 Treacherous Objects: Towards a Theory of Jacobite Material Culture 1 Context 1 Premises 3 Theorizing Jacobite culture 12 Symbols and context 22 2 Décor, Decoration and Design 32 A controversial case? 32 Exteriors 35 Interiors 41 James Gibbs and Joseph Enzer 49 3 Sedition, Symbols, Colours, Cant and Codes 59 Symbols of the Crown 61 Cant, code and secret societies 64 The memory of Mary, Queen of Scots 73 The Aisling 74 Oaks, roses and colour coding 74 Public and private symbols and memory 76 Tartan 83 4 Associations and Antiquarians 93 Coffee houses, taverns, howffs and alehouses 96 Jacobite clubs 103 Freemasonry 108 Case-study: art in diaspora 112 Conclusion: military networks 121 vii viii Contents 5 Propaganda: Medals, Weapons, Glass, Ceramics and Relics 125 Medals, coins and touch-pieces 125 Weapons and banners 132 Glass and ceramics 134 Relics 147 Postscript: The Making of Memory 151 Appendix: Index of Symbols, Cant and Code 159 Notes 170 Bibliography 200 Index 221 List of Illustrations Cover: Jacobite ostrich egg, Aberdeen University Special Collections Figures 1.1 Anamorphosis tray, reproduced by kind permission of West Highland Museum 20 1.2 Worn ‘Reddite’ medal, reproduced by kind permission of Glasgow Museums 26 1.3 George I snuffbox, reproduced by kind permission of Glasgow Museums 27 1.4 Queen Anne bellows, reproduced by kind permission of Glasgow Museums 28 1.5 Holyrood Jacobite fan, by kind permission of the Trustees of the West Highland Museum 28 1.6 Charles II coronation mug, reproduced by kind permission of the Museum of London 30 2.1 Strange portrait, Bridgeman Art Library 42 2.2 House of Dun and interior of the saloon – 1, copyright National Trust for Scotland 55 2.3 House of Dun and interior of the saloon – 2, copyright National Trust for Scotland 55 3.1 Ogilvy banner, reproduced by kind permission of Dundee Museums 83 3.2 Harlequin Portrait, reproduced from the Bridgeman Art Collection 89 5.1 Jetton, from a private collection 129 5.2 Jetton, from a private collection 129 5.3 Excise medal from a private collection 131 5.4 Excise medal from a private collection 131 5.5 Erskine AMEN glass, Glasgow Museums 138 5.6 Harlequin engraved glass, Bridgeman Art Library 139 5.7 Teapot, Bridgeman Art Gallery 147 ix
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