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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813910103321

Autore

Brown Ian

Titolo

The Edinburgh history of Scottish literature . Volume 2 Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707-1918) / / period editor, Susan Manning, general editor, Ian Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-13640-2

9786612136405

0-7486-3064-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Collana

Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature EUP

Altri autori (Persone)

BrownIan <1951->

ManningSusan <1953->

Disciplina

820.90009411

Soggetti

English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism

Scottish literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Scotland as North Britain: The Historical Background, 1707-1918; 2 A Nation Transformed: Scotland's Geography, 1707-1918; 3 Standards and Differences: Languages in Scotland, 1707-1918; 4 The International Reception and Literary Impact of Scottish Literature of the Period 1707-1918; 5 Post-Union Scotland and the Scottish Idiom of Britishness; 7 Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment; 8 Ramsay, Fergusson, Thomson, Davidson and Urban Poetry; 9 The Ossianic Revival, James Beattie and Primitivism; 10 Scottish-Irish Connections, 1707-1918

11 Scottish Song and the Jacobite Cause12 Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair and the New Gaelic Poetry; 13 Orality and Public Poetry; 14 Varieties of Public Performance: Folk Songs, Ballads, Popular Drama and Sermons; 15 Historiography, Biography and Identity; 16 Scotland's Literature of Empire and Emigration, 1707-1918; 17 Tobias Smollett; 18 Writing Scotland: Robert Burns; 19 Lord Byron; 20 Walter Scott; 21 Law Books, 1707-1918; 22 Periodicals, Encyclopaedias and Nineteenth-Century Literary Production; 23 Hogg, Galt, Scott and their Milieu



24 The Scottish Book Trade at Home and Abroad, 1707-191825 The National Drama, Joanna Baillie and the National Theatre; 26 The Literature of Industrialisation; 27 The Carlyles and Victorianism; 28 Gaelic Literature in the Nineteenth Century; 29 Nineteenth-Century Scottish Thought; 30 Travel Writing, 1707-1918; 31 'Half a trade and half an art': Adult and Juvenile Fiction in the Victorian Period; 32 Nineteenth-Century Scottish Poetry; 33 The Press, Newspaper Fiction and Literary Journalism, 1707-1918; 34 The Kailyard: Problem or Illusion?; 35 Robert Louis Stevenson; 36 J. M. Barrie

37 Patrick Geddes and the Celtic Revival38 The Collectors: John Francis Campbell and Alexander Carmichael; 39 Gaelic Literature and the Diaspora; 40 The Literature of Religious Revival and Disruption; Notes on Contributors - Volume Two; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature offers a major reinterpretation, re-evaluation and repositioning of the scope, nature and importance of Scottish Literature, arguably Scotland's most important and influential contribution to world culture. Drawing on the very best of recent scholarship, the History contributes a wide range of new and exciting insights. It takes full account of modern theory, but refuses to be in thrall to critical fashion. It is important not only for literary scholars, but because it changes the very way we think about what Scottishness is.