Scottish Literature Since 1707

Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748628629

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Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707) by Ian Brown Pdf

The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. New scholarship is brought to bear, not only on imaginative literature, but also law, politics, theology and philosophy, all placed in the context of the evolution of Scotland's geography, history, languages and material cultures from our earliest times up to 1707.

Author : R.D.S. Jack,P.A.T. Rozendaal
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781788855716

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The Mercat Anthology of Early Scottish Literature 1375-1707 by R.D.S. Jack,P.A.T. Rozendaal Pdf

This large-scale anthology of early Scottish Literature, now revised, has been designed as a teaching text for use by school and university students. Longer works are either presented complete - e.g. James I, King is Quair; as long extracts with explanatory linking passages - e.g. Urquhart, The Jewel; or by sections which sum up the main themes and concerns of the text-e.g. Barbour's Bruce Book I. There are full critical and linguistic introductions; brief biographical and bibliographical introductions for each author or sub-section; the texts have all been re-edited; every difficult word is glossed, and full explanatory notes appear at the foot of each page. A substantial Appendix presents texts in Latin, Scots, English and Gaelic from the seventeenth century, demonstrating the vitality and interaction of these voices within the Scottish tradition. A noteworthy feature of the book is Professor Jack's Critical Introduction, 'Where Stands Scottish Literature Now?' This challenges many widely-held assumptions about Scottish literature. In particular it seeks to explore the reasons behind the strange neglect of the writers of the seventeenth century. Basing its argument on the texts of the Anthology as a whole, it seeks to re-define the accepted canon and suggests an alternative way of approaching Scottish literary history.

Author : Marshall Walker
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Dialect literature, Scottish
ISBN : 0582028930

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Scottish Literature Since 1707 by Marshall Walker Pdf

Great Britain was formed by the union of the Scottish and English parliaments, and this event provided a new beginning for Scotland and Scottish literature. This study offers a critical interpretation of Scottish literature as well as an introduction to Scottish culture. It covers the Scottish enlightenment and the world of Adam Smith and David Hume, and the Scottish Renaissance associated with Hugh MacDiarmid. Developments in the contemporary literary scene include John McGrath's Scottish 7:84 Theatre Company, the poetry of Sorley MacLean, Iain Crichton Smith, Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Tom Leonard, and the fiction of Alasdair Gray, James Kelman and Iain Banks.

Author : Marshall Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315505398

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Scottish Literature Since 1707 by Marshall Walker Pdf

Marshall Walker's lively and readable account of the highs and lows of Scottish literature from this important date to the present addresses the important themes of democracy, power and nationhood. Disposing of stereotypical ideas about Scotland and the Scots, this fresh approach to Scottish literature provides a critical interpretation of its distinctive style and presents the reader with an informative introduction to Scottish culture. Coverage includes the Scottish enlightenment and the world of Boswell and David Hulme to the 'Scottish Renaissance', associated with Hugh MacDiarmaid. Developments in the contemporary literary scene include John McGrath's theatre Company and the fiction and poetry of Alaistar Gray and Ian Crichton Smith. Particular attention is given to the work of Scottish women writers such as Lady Grizel Baillie and Liz Lochhead, who have been much neglected in previous literature.

Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748630646

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Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707-1918) by Ian Brown Pdf

Between 1707 and 1918, Scotland underwent arguably the most dramatic upheavals in its political, economic and social history. The Union with England, industrialisation and Scotland's subsequent defining contributions throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the culture of Britain and Empire are reflected in the transformative energies of Scottish literature and literary institutions in the period. New genres, new concerns and whole new areas of interest opened under the creative scrutiny of sceptical minds. This second volume of the History reveals the major contribution made by Scottish writers and Scottish writing to the shape of modernity in Britain, Europe and the world.

Author : Alex Benchimol,Gerard Lee McKeever
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351056403

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Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840 by Alex Benchimol,Gerard Lee McKeever Pdf

The first applied research volume in Scottish Romanticism, this collection foregrounds the concept of progress as 'improvement' as a constitutive theme of Scottish writing during the long eighteenth century. It explores improvement as the animating principle behind Scotland’s post-1707 project of modernization, a narrative both shaped and reflected in the literary sphere. It represents a vital moment in Romantic studies, as a 'four-nations' interrogation of the British context reaches maturity. Equally, the volume contributes to a central concern in the study of Scottish culture, amplifying a critical synthesis of Romanticism and Enlightenment. The conceptual motif of improvement allows an illumination of the boundaries (and beyond) of conventional notions of Romanticism, tracing its long, evolving imbrication with Enlightenment in Scotland. Exploring the holistic treatment of improvement in Scottish literature, chapter-studies include work on agricultural improvement and processes of commercialization, polite cultural renewal and the cotton trade, an expanding print culture and spirituality in death rituals. Taken as a whole, this amounts to an interdisciplinary re-consideration of the central role of improvement in Scottish cultural history of the long eighteenth century, of interest to a wide range of scholars, reflecting the vitality of the exchange between Enlightenment and Romanticism in Scotland.

Author : Leith Davis,Janet Sorensen
Publisher : Scottish Literature International
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1908980311

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International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century by Leith Davis,Janet Sorensen Pdf

This International Companion shows how Scotland's literary cultures, in English, Gaelic, Latin, and Scots, were transformed in the turbulent age between between 1650 to 1800.

Author : Hugh Walker
Publisher : Glasgow : J. Maclehose
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : English literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HWPLMG

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Three Centuries of Scottish Literature by Hugh Walker Pdf

Author : Gerard Carruthers,Colin Kidd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191055812

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Literature and Union by Gerard Carruthers,Colin Kidd Pdf

Literature and Union opens up a new front in interdisciplinary literary studies. There has been a great deal of academic work—both in the Scottish context and more broadly—on the relationship between literature and nationhood, yet almost none on the relationship between literature and unions. This volume introduces the insights of the new British history into mainstream Scottish literary scholarship. The contributors, who are from all shades of the political spectrum, will interrogate from various angles the assumption of a binary opposition between organic Scottish values and those supposedly imposed by an overbearing imperial England. Viewing Scottish literature as a clash between Scottish and English identities loses sight of the internal Scottish political and religious divisions, which, far more than issues of nationhood and union, were the primary sources of conflict in Scottish culture for most of the period of Union, until at least the early twentieth century. The aim of the volume is to reconstruct the story of Scottish literature along lines which are more historically persuasive than those of the prevailing grand narratives in the field. The chapters fall into three groups: (1) those which highlight canonical moments in Scottish literary Unionism—John Bull, 'Rule, Britannia', Humphry Clinker, Ivanhoe and England, their England; (2) those which investigate key themes and problems, including the Unions of 1603 and 1707, Scottish Augustanism, the Burns Cult, Whig-Presbyterian and sentimental Jacobite literatures; and (3) comparative pieces on European and Anglo-Irish phenomena.

Author : Carla Sassi
Publisher : The Saltire Society
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0854110828

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Why Scottish Literature Matters by Carla Sassi Pdf

This is the fourth book in a Saltire series examining the significance of Scottish history, philosophy and the Scots language. Here, the Distinguished Italian academic Carla Sassi examines Scotland's literature from the earliest times to the late 20th century and offers new and fascinating insights into the nature of nationhood and identity, and the way in which these are reflected in, and the inspiration for, literary output at various periods. The major historical influences are covered including relations with England, religious division, enlightenment philosophy and the Union of 1707, but Professor Sassi also examines Scotland's role in the British imperial adventure and the impact on literature of the coloniser / colonised experience. She makes a special study of the contribution of women writers and the writers of the 20th century 'Renaissance' and concludes with speculation on the future of 'Scottish' literature in a post-modern Scotland exposed to global cultural influences and living in the new political world heralded by the restoration of the Holyrood Parliament. Carla Sassi is Associate Professor of English literature at the University of Verona. She specialises in Sc

Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748630653

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Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Modern Transformations: New Identities (from 1918) by Ian Brown Pdf

In almost a century since the First World War ended, Scotland has been transformed in many rich ways. Its literature has been an essential part of that transformation. The third volume of the History, explores the vibrancy of modern Scottish literature in all its forms and languages. Giving full credit to writing in Gaelic and by the Scottish diaspora, it brings together the best contemporary critical insights from three continents. It provides an accessible and refreshing picture of both the varieties of Scottish literatures and the kaleidoscopic versions of Scotland that mark literary developments since 1918.

Author : Matt McGuire
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137070081

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Contemporary Scottish Literature by Matt McGuire Pdf

This Guide examines the critical construction of the genre of 'contemporary Scottish literature' and assesses the critical responses to a wide range of contemporary Scottish fiction, poetry and drama. The Guide is structured thematically with each chapter addressing a specific area of debate within the field of contemporary Scottish Studies.

Author : Gerard Carruthers
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748633104

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Scottish Literature by Gerard Carruthers Pdf

This guide combines detailed literary history with discussion of contemporary debates about Scottishness.The book considers the rise of Scottish Studies, the development of a national literature, and issues of cultural nationalism. Beginning in the medieval period during a time of nation building, the book goes on to focus on the 'Scots revival' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before moving on to discuss the literary renaissance of the twentieth century. Debates concerning Celticism and Gaelic take place alongside discussion of key Scottish writers such as William Dunbar, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, Margaret Oliphant, Hugh MacDiarmid, Alasdair Gray, Janice Galloway and Liz Lochhead. The book also considers emigre writers to Scotland; Scottish literature in relation to England, the United States and Ireland; and postcolonialism and other theories that shed fresh light on the current status and future of Scottish literature.

Author : Alan Riach
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781804250365

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Scottish Literature by Alan Riach Pdf

What do we mean by 'Scottish literature'? Why does it matter? How do we engage with it? Bringing infectious enthusiasm and a lifetime's experience to bear on this multi-faceted literary nation, Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, sets out to guide you through the varied and ever-evolving landscape of Scottish literature. A comprehensive and extensive work designed not only for scholars but also for the generally curious, Scottish Literature: an introduction tells the tale of Scotland's many voices across the ages, from Celtic pre-history to modern mass media. Forsaking critical jargon, Riach journeys chronologically through individual works and writers, both the famed and the forgotten, alongside broad overviews of cultural contexts which connect texts to their own times. Expanding the restrictive canon of days gone by, Riach also sets down a new core body of 'Scottish Literature': key writers and works in English, Scots, and Gaelic. Ranging across time and genre, Scottish Literature: an introduction invites you to hear Scotland through her own words.

Author : Roderick Watson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350308831

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Literature of Scotland by Roderick Watson Pdf

Critics hailed the first edition of The Literature of Scotland as one of the most comprehensive and fascinatingly readable accounts of Scottish literature in all three of the country's languages - Gaelic, Scots and English. In this extensively revised and expanded new edition, Roderick Watson traces the lives and works of Scottish writers in a beautiful and rugged country that has been divided by political and religious conflict but united, too, by a democratic and egalitarian ideal of nationhood. The Literature of Scotland: The Twentieth Century provides a comprehensive account of the richest ever period in Scottish literary history. From The House with the Green Shutters to Trainspotting and far beyond, this companion volume to The Literature of Scotland: The Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century gives a critical and historical context to the upsurge of writing in the languages of Scotland. Roderick Watson covers a wide range of modern and contemporary Scottish authors including: MacDiarmid, MacLean, Grassic Gibbon, Gunn, Robert Garioch, Iain Crichton Smith, Alasdair Gray, Edwin Morgan, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, A. L. Kennedy, Liz Lochhead, John Burnside, Jackie Kay, Kathleen Jamie and many, many more! Also featuring an extended list of Further Reading and a helpful chronological timeline, this is an indispensable introduction to the great variety of Scottish writing which has emerged since the start of the twentieth century.