The Alienated Manor, a drama written in 1798 by a long-forgotten Scottish author, Joanna Baillie, a photographic artwork created in 2015, Portrait of Charles Edward Stuart (after William Mosman) by the Scottish artist Calum Colvin, and a travelogue, A Tour thro’ the whole Island of Great Britain, written by Daniel Defoe in 1724-27?

This “academic exercise” was an assignment given in 2021. You can find the detailed subject below:

After studying the extracts and the artwork, I based my analysis on the issue of the cultural alterity of the Highlanders in relation to wider Scottish and British national identities. I tackled this question of otherness in studying how it was built by outsiders upon the Highlanders’ loyalty to the Stuarts and historical resistance towards the British crown until the Jacobite rebellions in the 18^th century, and how this rebellious spirit and its consequences are represented in these three pieces of literature and pictorial art.

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