A history of Scottish women's writing / / edited by Douglas Gifford, Dorothy McMillan [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Gifford Douglas <1940->
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxiii, 716 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 820.9/9287/09411
• Soggetto topico: English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism; Scottish literature - Women authors - History and criticism; Scottish Gaelic literature - Women authors - History and criticism; Women - Scotland - Intellectual life; Women and literature - Scotland
• Soggetto geografico: Scotland In literature
• Altri autori: GiffordDouglas <1940->
• Persona (resp. second.): McMillanDorothy <1943->
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Oct 2020).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [677]-707) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day
• Titolo autorizzato: A history of Scottish women's writing
• ISBN: 0-7486-7266-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778734503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II