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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823898703321

Autore

Crawford Robert

Titolo

Bannockburns [[electronic resource] ] : Scottish Independence and Literary Imagination, 1314-2014

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2014

ISBN

0-7486-8585-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

820.99411

Soggetti

Fictions

Literary works

Scottish -- Literature

English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism

Scottish literature - History and criticism

Bannockburn, Battle of, Scotland, 1314

English

Regions & Countries - Europe

Languages & Literatures

History & Archaeology

English Literature

Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Imprint""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Writing Bannockburn""; ""2 Burns and Bannockburns""; ""3 Beyond Scotland""; ""4 Difficult Modern Scots""; ""5 Voting for a Scottish Democracy""; ""Notes""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

How writers have imagined the idea of Scottish independence over 700 years  Poet and critic Robert Crawford explores in eloquent detail the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism in the lead-up to the referendum on independence for Scotland in September 2014. He begins with the totemic Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, in which the Scots routed the English and preserved their independence until the two nations peacefully united in 1707. Continuing up to the present



day, he examines how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film the ideal of Scottish independence. Pu