To Win the Peace

Brewer, Susan A.

doi:10.7591/9781501733529

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“…This ideal celebrates feudal fealty, sacrifice rather than stratagem (as seen at Culloden), straightforwardness rather than subtlety, and uncritical loyalty to leader-figures. 70 This myth of the Highlands still has resonance today. It is no exaggeration to see the Glenfinnan Monument as both a physical and historical cipher in the construction of a Jacobite identity.…”

Section: The Monument In Its Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

A Romantic folly to Romantic folly: the Glenfinnan Monument reassessed

Cameron¹

2000

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The Glenfinnan Monument, now in the care of the National Trust for Scotland, is one of the principal symbols of Highland Jacobite culture. Set at the head of Loch Shiel, it marks the place at or near which the Jacobite standard was raised in 1745 to signal the start of the uprising led by Prince Charles Edward Stuart. Despite its fame as a Jacobite symbol, other aspects of the Monument have been overlooked, including the circumstances of its patronage by a local landowner with an instinct for excess, its history as a structure, and the fact that it was the work of one of the foremost Scottish architects of the first half of the 19th century, James Gillespie Graham. More speculatively, it is also argued here that its dramatic relationship to its topographical setting marks it out as a key monument of the Romantic period.This paper emanates from a survey and research project carried out by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) as part of its Listed Buildings Recording Programme.

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Section: The Monument In Its Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%