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Main Author: Carruthers, Gerard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press ©2009
Series:Edinburgh critical guides to literature
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Rise of Scottish Literature; cChapter 2 Scottish Literature in Scots; Chapter 3 Scottish Writing in English; Chapter 4 Intimate Critical Spaces in Scottish Texts; Chapter 5 Literary Relations: Scotland and Other Places; Conclusion; Student Resources; Index
This guide combines detailed literary history with discussion of contemporary debates about Scottishness. The book consdiers 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 Robert Burns, Walter Scot
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 228 pages)
ISBN:0748633103
9780748633104

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