Yup. Plus it was all taken up so enthusiastically by Queen Victoria and everyone… People seem to think, "Oooh, rebellion's always romantic!". Yeah, right: rebellion in favour of the divine right of kings, a Catholic succession, and the right of heritable jurisdictions for the nobility. It was a deeply reactionary cause, which would have greatly slowed down political progress, but people overlook that, just because of a load of mawkish songs and a lot of sentimental, tartan-wrapped twaddle.
The US-written Jaco romances boggle me completely: it's obvious that the authors have no grasp of real Scotland, and often depict Jacobitism as Scotland v England, not civil wars over dynastic/sectarian issues. Some novelists feel free to invent laws for real countries: it's as if, for them, Scotland is just some fantasy-land, like Ruritania. That attitude frightens me.
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Date: 2007-12-11 05:53 pm (UTC)The US-written Jaco romances boggle me completely: it's obvious that the authors have no grasp of real Scotland, and often depict Jacobitism as Scotland v England, not civil wars over dynastic/sectarian issues. Some novelists feel free to invent laws for real countries: it's as if, for them, Scotland is just some fantasy-land, like Ruritania. That attitude frightens me.