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E-mail address<\/strong>: Andrew.Monnickendam@uab.cat<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Department & University<\/strong>: Department of English and German Studies, UAB<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brief summary of research interests<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My research concentrates on several interconnected areas. The first is the early historical novel, specifically that published in Scotland in the early decades of the nineteenth-century, particularly the work of Walter Scott and the Waverley Novels. From that point of departure, I have researched extensively on a similar but rather underestimated genre, the National Tale. This led me to examine the figure of Christian Isobel Johnstone, a contemporary of Scott, who also wrote historical fiction, in particular, the four volume Clan-Albin (1815), yet from a slightly different angle: a more rigorous approach to examining Highland life, an examination of conflict in a more European context, and a more overtly pacificist angle. I prepared the first modern edition of her novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Historical Tale, as is common knowledge, deals extensively with national identity and nation-building or destruction: wars and their outcome decide the fate of the state. Hence, I have turned my attention to more recent accounts of conflict and their extension into periods of peace and general culture, as Clausewitz so astutely predicted would become the norm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n