The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: v. 2 Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707-1918)

compulsively readable Scottish Studies Review compulsively readable

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Ian Brown is Professor in Drama at Kingston University. He is General Editor of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature (EUP: 2007) and Series Editor of The Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature, co-editing the volume on the twentieth century (2009) and on drama (due out in 2011). Thomas Clancy is Lecturer in the Department of Celtic at the University of Glasgow. Susan Manning is Grierson Professor of English Literature, and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing (2002) and The Puritan-Provincial Vision: Scottish and American Literature in the Nineteenth Century (1990). Murray Pittock is Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, Head of the College of Arts and Vice-Principal. He has formerly held chairs and other senior appointments at Strathclyde, Edinburgh and Manchester universities. His recent work includes Scottish and Irish Romanticism (2008), The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe (2007) and James Boswell (2007). Forthcoming work includes collections on Robert Burns in Global Culture, the Reception of Robert Burns in Europe and the textual edition of the Scottish Musical Museum for the Oxford Burns. He is currently PI of the AHRC Beyond Text project, 'Robert Burns, 1796-1909: Inventing Tradition and Securing Memory'.

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Preface; Chapter 1 - Scotland as North Britain: The Historical Background 1707-1918, T. C. Smout; Chapter 2 - A Nation Transformed: Scotland's Geography, 1707-1918, Charles W. J. Withers; Chapter 3 - Standards and Differences: Languages in Scotland, 1707-1918, Charles Jones and Wilson McLeod; Chapter 4 - The International Reception and Literary Impact of Scottish Literature of the period 1707-1918, Paul Barnaby and Tom Hubbard; Chapter 5 - Post-Union Scotland and the Scottish Idiom of Britishness, Susan Manning; Chapter 6 - The Emergence of Privacy: Letters, Journals and Domestic Writing, Karina Williamson; Chapter 7 - Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment, Ian Duncan; Chapter 8 - Ramsay, Fergusson, Thomson, Davidson and Urban Poetry, Soren Hammerschmidt; Chapter 9 - The Ossianic Revival, James Beattie and Primitivism, Dafydd Moore; Chapter 10 - Scottish-Irish Connections 1707-1918, Gerry Carruthers; Chapter 11 - Scottish song and the Jacobite Cause, Murray G. H. Pittock; Chapter 12 - Alastair mac Mhaighstir Alastair and the New Gaelic Poetry, Ronald Black; Chapter 13 - Orality and Public Poetry, Leith Davis and Maureen N. McLane; Chapter 14 - Varieties of Public Performance: Folk Songs, Ballads, Popular Drama and Sermons, Janet Sorensen; Chapter 15 - Historiography, Biography and Identity, Karen O'Brien and Susan Manning; Chapter 16 - Scotland's Literature of Empire and Emigration, 1707-1918, Nigel Leask; Chapter 17 - Tobias George Smollett, Ian Campbell Ross; Chapter 18 - Writing Scotland: Robert Burns, Carol McGuirk; Chapter 19 - Lord Byron, Alan Rawes; Chapter 20 - Walter Scott, Fiona Robertson; Chapter 21 - Law Books 1707-1918, John Cairns; Chapter 22 - Periodicals, Encyclopedias and Nineteenth-Century Literary Production, David Finkelstein; Chapter 23 - Hogg, Galt, Scott and their Milieu, Ian Duncan and Douglas Mack; Chapter 24 - The Scottish Book Trade at Home and Abroad: 1707-1918, Bill Bell; Chapter 25 - The National Drama, Joanna Baillie and the National Theatre, Barbara Bell; Chapter 26 - The Literature of Industrialisation, Alan Riach; Chapter 27 - The Carlyles and Victorianism, Chris R. Vanden Bossche; Chapter 28 - Gaelic Literature in the Nineteenth Century, Donald E. Meek; Chapter 29 - Nineteenth-Century Scottish Thought, Cairns Craig; Chapter 30 - Travel Writing 1707-1918, Catherine Jones; Chapter 31 - Fiction as Art and Commodity: George MacDonald, R. M. Ballantyne, Margaret Oliphant and Arthur Conan Doyle, Colin Milton; Chapter 32 - Nineteenth-Century Scottish Poetry, Laura Mandell; Chapter 33 - The Press, Newspaper Fiction and Literary Journalism, 1707-1918, Bob Harris; Chapter 34 - The Kailyard: Problem or Illusion?, Andrew Nash; Chapter 35 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Penny Fielding; Chapter 36 - J. M. Barrie, R. D. S. Jack; Chapter 37 - Patrick Geddes and the Celtic Revival, Murray Pittock and Isla Jack; Chapter 38 - The Collectors: John Francis Campbell, Alexander Carmichael, John Shaw; Chapter 39 - Gaelic Literature and the Diaspora, Michael Newton; Chapter 40 - The Literature of Religious Revival and Disruption, Donald E. Meek; Notes on Contributors.

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