Digital and Data Humanities Summer Fellowships Cohort Archive

Nineteenth-Century Scottish Novels Database

The Nineteenth-Century Scottish Novels Database makes available some of the hundreds of once popular novels written by Scottish writers during the nineteenth century that have fallen out of print and into obscurity. Scholars of Scottish literature have struggled to assert its importance against more dominant English and American canons.  This effort has led them to over-emphasize Scottish literature’s major figures—Robert Burns, Walter Scott, and Robert Louis Stevenson—at the expense of less well-known writers, particularly women writers.  My open-access database will make available novels by some of these writers, facilitating scholarly discussion and public awareness of their work.