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Scottish Literature
Gerard Carruthers
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Description for Scottish Literature
Paperback. This comprehensive guide to Scottish Literature combines detailed literary history with discussion of contemporary debates about Scottishness. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748633098
SKU
V9780748633098
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About Gerard Carruthers
Gerard Carruthers is Reader and Head of Department in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is General Editor of the forthcoming multi-volume Oxford University Press edition of the works of Robert Burns and is Director of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies. He is also the author of Robert Burns (Northcote, 2006), editor of The Devil to Stage: ... Read more
Reviews for Scottish Literature
Carruthers offers an enlightening discussion on past and current modes of deconstructing Scottish literature. Scottish Review of Books Carruthers offers an enlightening discussion on past and current modes of deconstructing Scottish literature.