Author : Juliet Shields
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009003054
Introducing the neglected tradition of Scottish women's writing to readers who may already be familiar with English Victorian realism or the historical romances of Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, this book corrects male-dominated histories of the Scottish novel by demonstrating how women appropriated the masculine genre of romance.
Author : Sarah Dunnigan
Publisher : Occasional Papers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781908980298
This volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of nineteenth-century Scottish children's literature. As well as much-loved authors such as Stevenson, Barrie, and MacDonald, it explores how women writers shaped Scottish children's literature, the contribution of Gaelic writers, and the role of folklore and tradition.
Author : Douglas Gifford
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 25,86 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748672664
This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.
Author : Dewey W. Hall
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 21,49 MB
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1949979059
Gendered Ecologies considers the value of interrelationships that exist among human, nonhuman species, and inanimate objects, featuring observations by women writers as recorded in texts. The edition presents a case for transnational women writers, participating in the discourse of natural philosophy from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries.
Author : Juliet Shields
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139487973
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.
Author : Glenda Norquay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748664807
By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped literary output and addresses the changing situations in which Scottish women lived and wrote.
Author : Gerard Carruthers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 2023-12-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1119651441
A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of the world’s leading experts in the field, this comprehensive resource provides the historical background of Scottish literature, highlights new critical approaches, and explores wider cultural and institutional contexts. Dealing with texts in the languages of Scots, English, and Gaelic, the Companion offers modern perspectives on the historical milieux, thematic contexts and canonical writers of Scottish literature. Original essays apply the most up-to-date critical and scholarly analyses to a uniquely wide range of topics, such as Gaelic literature, national and diasporic writing, children’s literature, Scottish drama and theatre, gender and sexuality, and women’s writing. Critical readings examine William Dunbar, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark and Carol Ann Duffy, amongst others. With full references and guidance for further reading, as well as numerous links to online resources, A Companion to Scottish Literature is essential reading for advanced students and scholars of Scottish literature, as well as academic and non-academic readers with an interest in the subject.
Author : Barbara Leonardi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 2018-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319967703
This book explores the intersections of gender with class and race in the construction of national and imperial ideologies and their fluid transformation from the Romantic to the Victorian period and beyond, exposing how these cultural constructions are deeply entangled with the family metaphor. For example, by examining the re-signification of the “angel in the house” and the deviant woman in the context of unstable or contingent masculinities and across discourses of class and nation, the volume contributes to a more nuanced understanding of British cultural constructions in the long nineteenth century. The central idea is to unearth the historical roots of the family metaphor in the construction of national and imperial ideologies, and to uncover the interests served by its specific discursive formation. The book explores both male and female stereotypes, enabling a more perceptive comparison, enriched with a nuanced reflection on the construction and social function of class.
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748628622
The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. New scholarship is brought to bear, not only on imaginative literature, but also law, politics, theology and philosophy, all placed in the context of the evolution of Scotland's geography, history, languages and material cultures from our earliest times up to 1707.
Author : Lauren Gillingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Design
ISBN : 1009296566
Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.
