User:David McNeil

I am an Associate Professor in the English Department of Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) where I have taught since 1984. My main area of specialization is Restoration and Eighteenth Century English Literature. I have published on the subjects of war, the south sea bubble, provincial newspapers and the image of America. My present project is to produce an electronic edition of the Memoirs of the Chevalier James Johnstone, a Jacobite who escaped the aftermath of Culloden (1746), made his way to London that summer where he was during the executions in July, escaped to the continent, and ended up serving in the French colonial forces at Louisbourg (leading up to its fall to the British in 1758), and then at Quebec and Montreal respectively in 1759 and 1760. The Memoirs conclude with the fall of Montreal to the British. Although there have been two nineteenth-century editions of the Memoirs, neither can be considered authoritative. This project will use the two manuscript versions (English and French) held by the Library and Archives of Canada (LAC) to produce a bilingual text, which along with facsimiles of the original, will be housed by the Electronic Text Centre at Dalhousie University.