Author: Christian Isobel JohnstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Saxon and the Gael; Or, The Northern Metropolis: Including a View of the Lowland and Highland Character
Author: Christian Isobel JohnstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Saxon and the Gaël, Or, The Northern Metropolis
Author: Christian Isobel JohnstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745–1820
Author: Juliet ShieldsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139487973
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
What did it mean to be British, and more specifically to feel British, in the century following the parliamentary union of Scotland and England? Juliet Shields departs from recent accounts of the Romantic emergence of nationalism by recovering the terms in which eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers understood nationhood. She argues that in the wake of the turmoil surrounding the Union, Scottish writers appealed to sentiment, or refined feeling, to imagine the nation as a community. They sought to transform a Great Britain united by political and economic interests into one united by shared sympathies, even while they used the gendered and racial connotations of sentiment to differentiate sharply between Scottish, English, and British identities. By moving Scotland from the margins to the center of literary history, the book explores how sentiment shaped both the development of British identity and the literature within which writers responded creatively to the idea of nationhood.
Pointed Encounters
Author: Anne McKee StapletonPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401211116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Pointed Encounters establishes the literary significance of representations of dance in poetry, song, dance manuals, and fiction written between 1750 and 1830. Presenting original readings of canonical texts and fresh readings of neglected but significant literary works, this book traces the complicated role of social dancing in Scottish culture and identifies the hitherto unexplored motif of dance as an outwardly conforming, yet covertly subversive, expression of Scottish identity during the period. The volume draws upon diverse yet mutually revealing texts, from traditional dance and music to Sir Walter Scott and contemporary Scottish women novelists, to offer students and scholars of Scottish and English literature a fresh insight into the socio-cultural context of the British state after 1746.
The Antijacobin Review and True Churchman's Magazine
Author: The Anti-Jacobin Review and Protestant Advocate
Author: The Dublin University Magazine
Author: University Magazine
Author: Scotland's Books
Author: Robert CrawfordPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199888973
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. In Scotland's Books the much loved poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish imaginative writing and its relationship to the country's history. Stretching from the medieval masterpieces of St. Columba's Iona - the earliest surviving Scottish work - to the energetic world of twenty-first-century writing by authors such as Ali Smith and James Kelman, this outstanding account traces the development of literature in Scotland and explores the cultural, linguistic and literary heritage of the nation. It includes extracts from the writing discussed to give a flavor of the original work, and its new research ranges from specially made translations of ancient poems to previously unpublished material from the Scottish Enlightenment and interviews with living writers. Informative and readable, this is the definitive single-volume guide to the marvelous legacy of Scottish literature.
Clan-Albin: A National Tale
Author: Juliette ShieldsPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000620379
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Christian Isobel Johnstone’s Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815, less than a year after Walter Scott’s Waverley; or ‘tis Sixty Years Since enthralled readers and initiated a craze for Scottish novels. Both as a novelist and as editor of Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine from 1834 to 1846, Johnstone was a powerful figure in Romantic Edinburgh’s literary scene. But her works and her reputation have long been overshadowed by Scott’s. In Clan-Albin, Johnstone engages with themes on British imperial expansion, metropolitan England’s economic and political relationships with the Celtic peripheries, and the role of women in public life. This rare novel, alongside extensive editorial commentary, will be of much interest to students of British Literature.