04965nam 22005772 450 991077873450332120230627200025.00-7486-7266-410.1515/9780748672660(CKB)111000211278240(MiAaPQ)EBC6141577(UkCbUP)CR9780748672660(DE-B1597)614972(DE-B1597)9780748672660(OCoLC)1306540386(EXLCZ)9911100021127824020200824d1997|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA history of Scottish women's writing /edited by Douglas Gifford, Dorothy McMillan[electronic resource]Edinburgh :Edinburgh University Press,1997.1 online resource (xxiii, 716 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Oct 2020).0-7486-0916-4 Includes bibliographical references (pages [677]-707) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: A History of Scottish Women's Writing -- 1. The Gaelic Tradition up to 1750 -- 2. Scottish Women Writers c.l560-c.l650 -- 3. Old Singing Women and the Canons of Scottish Balladry and Song -- 4. Women and Song 1750-1850 -- 5. Selves and Others: Non~fiction Writing in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries -- 6. Bums's Sister -- 7. 'Kept some steps behind him': Women in Scotland 1780-1920 -- 8. Some Early Travellers -- 9. From Here to Alterity: The Geography of Femininity in the Poetry of Joanna Baillie -- 10. Some Women of the Nineteenth~century Scottish Theatre: Joanna Baillie, Frances Wright and Helen MacGregor -- 11. The Other Great Unknowns: Women Fiction Writers of the Early Nineteenth Century -- 12. Rediscovering Scottish Women's Fiction in the Nineteenth Century -- 13. Elizabeth Grant -- 14. Viragos of the Periodical Press: Constance Gordon,Cumming, Charlotte Dempster, Margaret Oliphant, Christian Isobel Johnstone -- 15. Jane Welsh Carlyle's Private Writing Career -- 16. Beyond 'The Empire of the Gentle Heart': Scottish Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century -- 17. What a Voice! Women, Repertoire and Loss in the Singing Tradition -- 18. Margaret Oliphant -- 19. Caught Between Worlds: The Fiction of Jane and Mary Findlater -- 20. Scottish Women Writers Abroad: The Canadian Experience -- 21. Women and Nation -- 22. Annie S. Swan and 0. Douglas: Legacies of the Kailyard -- 23. Tales of Her Own Countries: Violet Jacob -- 24. Fictions of Development 1920-1970 -- 25. Marion Angus and the Boundaries of Self -- 26. Catherine Carswell: Open the Door! -- 27. Willa Muir: Crossing the Genres -- 28. 'To know Being': Substance and Spirit in the Work of Nan Shepherd -- 29. Twentieth,century Poetry 1: Rachel Annand Taylor to Veronica Forrest, Thomson -- 30. More Than Merely Ourselves: Naomi Mitchison -- 31. The Modem Historical Tradition -- 32. Jane Duncan: The Homecoming of Imagination -- 33. Jessie Kesson -- 34. Scottish Women Dramatists Since 1945 -- 35. The Remarkable Fictions of Muriel Spark -- 36. Vision and Space in Elspeth Davie's Fiction -- 37. Designer Kailyard -- 38. Twentieth,century Poetry II: The Last Twenty,five Years -- 39. Contemporary Fiction 1: Tradition and Continuity -- 40. Contemporary Fiction II: Seven Writers in Scotland -- 41. Contemporary Fiction III: The Anglo,Scots -- 42. The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead -- 43. Women's Writing in Scottish Gaelic Since 1750 -- Select Bibliographies of Scottish Women Writers -- Notes on Contributors -- IndexThis is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present dayEnglish literatureScottish authorsHistory and criticismScottish literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismScottish Gaelic literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomenScotlandIntellectual lifeWomen and literatureScotlandScotlandIn literatureEnglish literatureScottish authorsHistory and criticism.Scottish literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Scottish Gaelic literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.WomenIntellectual life.Women and literature820.9/9287/09411Gifford Douglas1940-authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut158138Gifford Douglas1940-158138McMillan Dorothy1943-UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910778734503321A history of Scottish women's writing3712279UNINA