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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456991703321

Autore

Pittock Murray

Titolo

The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-22173-X

9786613221735

0-7486-4635-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature

Disciplina

820.914509411 22

Soggetti

English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism

English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism

Romanticism -- Ireland

Romanticism -- Scotland

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; INTRODUCTION What is Scottish Romanticism?; SECTION I The Scottish Public Sphere: Themes, Groups and Identities; CHAPTER ONE Ballads and Chapbooks; CHAPTER TWO Romantic Macpherson; CHAPTER THREE Scottish Song, Lyric Poetry and the Romantic Composer; CHAPTER FOUR Gaelic Literature and Scottish Romanticism; CHAPTER FIVE Travel Writing and the Picturesque; CHAPTER SIX Urban Space and Enlightened Romanticism; CHAPTER SEVEN Periodicals and Public Culture; CHAPTER EIGHT The Scottish National Tale; CHAPTER NINE Religion and Scottish Romanticism

SECTION II Authors and TextsCHAPTER TEN Robert Burns and Romanticism in Britain and Ireland; CHAPTER ELEVEN Walter Scott's Romanticism: A Theory of Performance; CHAPTER TWELVE Byron; CHAPTER THIRTEEN John Galt's Fictional and Performative Worlds; CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner; CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Function of Linguistic Variety in Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on



Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first and only guide to Scottish Romanticism. It captures the best of critical debate as well as presenting exciting new approaches to a distinctively Scottish Romanticism in literary theory, religious studies, music and song and the thematic use of non standard English.