Our special issue closes with Gerard Lee McKeever who places John Galt's cultural geography of the coastal region of Scotland within British imperial, European, and transatlantic contexts.

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Katie Garner reads the female testimony of a coastal encounter w/ a mermaid as example of Donna Haraway's "situated knowledges". Curious to learn about its literary afterlife in satirical fiction? shorturl.at/knsIW

Chris Donaldson (Lancaster Uni) & James Maclaine (Natural History Museum, London) offer a "Tale of Two (Stuffed) Fish" to explore qs of knowledge production & taxonomies. They invite us "to rethink the geographical assumptions that often govern the study of national pasts."

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@claireconnolly.bsky.social sails from Port Patrick to Belfast w/ Keats to introduce us to 'the Duchess of Dunghill'. Archival research frames Connolly's reading of Keats's description of this impoverished Irish woman's body & her challenge to romantic aesthetics.

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Nigel Leask turns our attention to William Daniell's topographical art in a close reading of aquatints of the Isle of Skye & the West Highlands. He highlights that 'Coasts had never been so important.'

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Susan Oliver takes a close look at a familiar sight of the Scottish coast - the Bass Rock. She shows how natural philosophers, writers, & artists in the late C18th & early C19th 'embodied what we now regard as interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge'.

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Thanks to Marie Sklodowska-Curie funding, we were able to commission the wonderful Christina Riley to reflect on what Romanticism might mean to the C21st artist. Her illustrated essay on 'Fragments of Romance' is a tender piece on place. image caption below!

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Warm thanks @iashedinburgh.bsky.social & SWINC Network for co-hosting the workshop that started conversations on a rainy February day 2 years ago! Such a treat to bring together those who have inspired my Scottish adventures. Lengthy acknowledgements here incl Katie Ritson, Katie Garner, Edel Semple

My intro explores "The Coastal Turn in Romantic Studies", connecting early C19th texts w/ today's artists, musicians, & writers incl David Cass, Karine Polwart & Roseanne Watt. Shout out to #CoastalStudies reading group @coastalhistory.bsky.social & @stevementz.bsky.social

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Excited to share the publication of "Scotland's Coastal Romanticisms", co-edited w/ Penny Fielding in the #OA journal Romanticism on the Net! Thanks to @mjrsangster.bsky.social & team for their great work on this issue. Thanks Marie Curie Actions for funding the project.

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Back from a residential Writing Retreat at The Burn! What a place & what a great group of researchers. Had great fun facilitating plenty of writing, while also enjoying woodland walks, and playing a game of chess. Thanks to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social for organising!