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Record Nr.

UNINA9910467450403321

Titolo

The international companion to Scottish literature 1400-1650 / / edited by Nicola Royan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Glasgow : , : Scottish Literature International, , 2018

ISBN

1-908980-24-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 379 pages)

Collana

International companions to Scottish literature ; ; 6

Disciplina

820.99411

Soggetti

English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : literatures of the Stewart Kingdom / Nicola Royan -- part 1. Language and transmission. 1. The languages of Scotland / Sara Pons-Sanz and Aonghas MacCoinnich -- 2. The transmission of older Scots literature / Sally Mapstone -- part 2. Culture and identity. 3. Expressions of faith : religious writing / Sìm Innes and Steven Reid -- 4. The purposes of literature / William Gillies and Kate McClune -- 5. Historiography in Highlands and Lowlands / Ulrike Hogg and Martin MacGregor -- part 3. Genre and approach. 6. Lyric / Mícheál B. Ó Mainnín and Nicola Royan -- 7. Chivalric literature / Rhiannon Purdie and Katie Stevenson -- 8. Elegy and commemorative writing / Joanna Martin and Kate L. Mathis -- 9. Satire / Tricia A. McElroy and Nicole Meier -- 10. Performance John J. McGavin and Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart -- 11. Translation / Kaarina Hollo and Thomas Rutledge.

Sommario/riassunto

Between 1400 and 1650 Scotland underwent a series of drastic changes, in court, culture, and religion. Renaissance and Reformation, the Union of the Crowns, and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms all shaped the nation, shifting and recasting Scotland's established relationships with Europe, the Mediterranean world, and with England. This International Companion traces the impact of these sweeping historical transformations on Scotland's literatures, in English, Gaelic,



Latin and Scots, and provides a comprehensive overview to the major cultural developments of this turbulent age.