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Del 14 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Crossing the Highland Line
Cross-Currents in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Literature
AvChristopher MacLachlan
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
337 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The eighteenth century was a time of dramatic change and drastic upheaval in Scotland, from the Treaty of Union with England in 1707, through Jacobite rebellions in the Highlands, to the Scottish Enlightenment. This was the century when Scottish writing exploded across the globe, from Hume and Smith, from Macpherson's Ossian, from Burns and from Scott, transforming world literature and culture. Crossing the Highland Line is a new collection of essays examining this crucial period, exploring the literary connections and influences across Scotland, and tracing the links between those who wrote in Scots and English and those who wrote in Gaelic.These essays, from fourteen leading scholars, show that the whole of Scotland - Highland and Lowland, high cultures and low - participated in the reshaping of literature in the eighteenth century. The Highland Line does not divide.
Del 15 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Scottish and International Modernisms
Relationships and Reconfigurations
AvEmma Dymock,Margery Palmer McCulloch
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
334 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The twentieth-century Scottish renaissance – the literary and artistic revival which followed the end of the First World War – advanced a claim for a distinctive Scottish identity: cultural, political and national. Unlike earlier nineteenth-century Celtic revivals, this renaissance was both outward-looking and confidently contemporary; it embraced continental European influences as well as those of Anglophone writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound and Lawrence, and contributed to the development of what we now call modernism.This collection of fourteen essays illustrates the strongly international and modernist dimension of Scotland’s interwar revival, and illuminates the relationships between Scottish and non-Scottish writers and contexts. It also includes two chapters on the contribution made to this revival by Scottish visual art and music.
Del 17 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Rethinking George MacDonald
Contexts and Contemporaries
AvChristopher MacLachlan,John Patrick Pazdzioram. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
337 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
George MacDonald (1824 - 1905) is the acknowledged forefather of later fantasy writers such as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien: however, his place in his own time is seldom examined. This omission does MacDonald a grave disservice. By ignoring a fundamental aspect of what made MacDonald the man he was, the critical habit of viewing MacDonald's work only in terms of his followers reinforces the long-entrenched assessment that it has a limited value - one only for religious enthusiasts and fantasy lovers. The essays in this anthology seek to correct that omission, by looking directly at MacDonald the Victorian - at his place in the Victorian literary scene, at his engagement with the works of his literary contemporaries and at his interest in the social, political, and theological movements of his age. The resulting portrait reveals a MacDonald who deserves a more prominent place in the rich literary history of the nineteenth century than he has hitherto been given.
Del 18 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Gateway to the Modern
Resituating J. M. Barrie
AvValentina Bold,Andrew Nash
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
337 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
J. M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) is today known almost exclusively for one work: Peter Pan. Yet he was the most successful British playwright of the early twentieth century, and his novels were once thought equal to those of George Meredith and Thomas Hardy. Although in recent years there has been a revival of interest in Barrie's writing, many critics still fail to include him in surveys of fin de siecle literature or drama. Perhaps Barrie's remarkable variety of output has prevented him from being taken to the centre of critical discussions in any one area of literary criticism or history. Is Barrie predominantly a novelist or a playwright? Is he Victorian, Decadent, Edwardian or Modernist? Gateway to the Modern is the very first collection of essays on Barrie which attempts to do justice to the extraordinary range of his literary achievement. What emerges is a significant writer, fully immersed in the literary and intellectual culture of his day.
Del 22 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Empires and Revolutions
Cunninghame Graham and His Contemporaries
AvCarla Sassi,Silke Stroh
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
335 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The European age of empires launched a process of capitalist globalisation that continues to the present day. It is also inextricably linked with the spread of revolutionary discourses (in terms of race, nation or social class): the quest for emancipation, political independence, and economic equality. R. B. Cunninghame Graham (1852–1936), in both his life and his oeuvre, most effectively represents the complex interaction between imperial and revolutionary discourses in this dramatic period. Throughout his life he was an outspoken critic of injustice and inequality, and his appreciation of the demands and customs of diverse territories and contrasting cultures were hallmarks of his life, his political ideas, and his writing. These essays explore the expression of these ideas in the works of Cunninghame Graham and of other Scottish writers of the period.
Del 23 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Land of Story-Books
Scottish Children's Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century
AvSarah Dunnigan,Shu-Fang Lai
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
321 kr
Skickas
This volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children’s literature throughout the long nineteenth century. As well as revisiting much-loved authors such as Stevenson, Barrie, and MacDonald, it explores the neglected role of women writers in shaping the inheritance of Scottish children’s literature, the significant contribution of Gaelic writers, and the role of folklore and tradition. Essays also examine the significance of children as literary protagonists, and as readers themselves. In recovering these marginal voices and texts, and in showing how well-known stories explore questions of culture, identity, and language, The Land of Story-Booksseeks to restore the traditions of children’s writing to the heart of Scottish literary history.
Del 24 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Crooked Dividend
Essays on Muriel Spark
AvGerard Carruthers,Helen Stoddart
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
283 kr
Skickas
This volume of fourteen essays offers fresh insight into the life and work of Muriel Spark (1918-2006), one of Scotland's most internationally celebrated writers. Known for her cultural cosmopolitanism and sharp wit, Spark was prolific as a novelist, poet, short story writer, dramatist, and literary critic. The Crooked Dividend provides a thorough overview of Spark's multifaceted work and examines the cultural, literary, and personal frameworks that shaped her writing. These essays contextualise Spark within post-war British culture, analyse the influence of longstanding Scottish literary traditions on her work, and explore the full range of her literary output through topics such as gender, religion, and politics. In a comprehensive examination of her publications, archive material, and colourful career, this volume celebrates and reaffirms Spark's international legacy.
Del 25 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Christianity in Scottish Literature
AvJohn Pazdziora
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
283 kr
Skickas
The experiences of being Christian and living amid a culture shaped by various iterations of Christianity are long-standing concerns of Scottish literature. This volume moves through Scotland’s literary history, from the early medieval era to the twenty-first century, to explore how Christianity has provided Scottish writers with a framework on which to build their manifold literary selves. Walter Scott, Margaret Oliphant and Edwin Morgan are among the writers revisited in this collection to examine the enduring influence of Christian liturgy, language and belief on Scottish fiction, drama and poetry. These fifteen essays offer contrasting, sometimes disharmonious readings of what it means to be Christian and Scottish, and work to illuminate Scottish literature’s complex relationship and interplay with Christianity.
Del 26 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Writing Scottishness
Literature and the Shaping of Scottish National Identities
AvIan Brown,Clarisse Godard Desmarest
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
278 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Scotland's sense of national identity and cultural distinctiveness has long been articulated through its literature. These fourteen essays explore literary manifestations of Scottishness and examine the political, religious and cultural complexities, as well as the cross-national transfer of ideas, that have shaped Scottish writing and performance through the centuries. By analysing the works of canonical writers such as Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside sometimes marginalised figures, including Gaelic-language poets and women novelists, this volume offers a comprehensive and diverse understanding of writing Scottishness. The collection draws not only on Scottish texts but also Scottish song culture, cinematic adaptations and literary walking trails to shed new light on the nation's negotiation of its identity through its cultural creations.
Nyhet
Del 27 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Stevenson and Pleasure
AvJulie Gay,Lesley Grahamm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
348 kr
Skickas
‘In the life of the artist there need be no hour without its pleasure’—Robert Louis StevensonThis volume explores how pleasure – sensory, intellectual, and aesthetic – influenced Robert Louis Stevenson’s work, and its reception. Engaging with a range of critical and theoretical perspectives, the contributors examine Stevenson’s representations of pleasure as a recurring theme across his essays, fiction, and travel writing, as well as later adaptations. They also consider how his writing invites affective and interpretive pleasures that are at once personal and communal, ethical and escapist. Structured around bodily and mental pleasures, creative processes, and intertextual or intermedial engagements, these essays reposition pleasure as a vital lens for understanding Stevenson’s literary practice and enduring appeal.

ASLS Occasional Papers – serie

Visar alla böcker i serien ASLS Occasional Papers. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.

10 produkter

Kategorier

10 produkter

Del 14 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Crossing the Highland Line
Cross-Currents in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Literature
AvChristopher MacLachlan
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
337 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The eighteenth century was a time of dramatic change and drastic upheaval in Scotland, from the Treaty of Union with England in 1707, through Jacobite rebellions in the Highlands, to the Scottish Enlightenment. This was the century when Scottish writing exploded across the globe, from Hume and Smith, from Macpherson's Ossian, from Burns and from Scott, transforming world literature and culture. Crossing the Highland Line is a new collection of essays examining this crucial period, exploring the literary connections and influences across Scotland, and tracing the links between those who wrote in Scots and English and those who wrote in Gaelic.These essays, from fourteen leading scholars, show that the whole of Scotland - Highland and Lowland, high cultures and low - participated in the reshaping of literature in the eighteenth century. The Highland Line does not divide.
Del 15 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Scottish and International Modernisms
Relationships and Reconfigurations
AvEmma Dymock,Margery Palmer McCulloch
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
334 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The twentieth-century Scottish renaissance – the literary and artistic revival which followed the end of the First World War – advanced a claim for a distinctive Scottish identity: cultural, political and national. Unlike earlier nineteenth-century Celtic revivals, this renaissance was both outward-looking and confidently contemporary; it embraced continental European influences as well as those of Anglophone writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound and Lawrence, and contributed to the development of what we now call modernism.This collection of fourteen essays illustrates the strongly international and modernist dimension of Scotland’s interwar revival, and illuminates the relationships between Scottish and non-Scottish writers and contexts. It also includes two chapters on the contribution made to this revival by Scottish visual art and music.
Del 17 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Rethinking George MacDonald
Contexts and Contemporaries
AvChristopher MacLachlan,John Patrick Pazdzioram. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
337 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
George MacDonald (1824 - 1905) is the acknowledged forefather of later fantasy writers such as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien: however, his place in his own time is seldom examined. This omission does MacDonald a grave disservice. By ignoring a fundamental aspect of what made MacDonald the man he was, the critical habit of viewing MacDonald's work only in terms of his followers reinforces the long-entrenched assessment that it has a limited value - one only for religious enthusiasts and fantasy lovers. The essays in this anthology seek to correct that omission, by looking directly at MacDonald the Victorian - at his place in the Victorian literary scene, at his engagement with the works of his literary contemporaries and at his interest in the social, political, and theological movements of his age. The resulting portrait reveals a MacDonald who deserves a more prominent place in the rich literary history of the nineteenth century than he has hitherto been given.
Del 18 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Gateway to the Modern
Resituating J. M. Barrie
AvValentina Bold,Andrew Nash
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
337 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
J. M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) is today known almost exclusively for one work: Peter Pan. Yet he was the most successful British playwright of the early twentieth century, and his novels were once thought equal to those of George Meredith and Thomas Hardy. Although in recent years there has been a revival of interest in Barrie's writing, many critics still fail to include him in surveys of fin de siecle literature or drama. Perhaps Barrie's remarkable variety of output has prevented him from being taken to the centre of critical discussions in any one area of literary criticism or history. Is Barrie predominantly a novelist or a playwright? Is he Victorian, Decadent, Edwardian or Modernist? Gateway to the Modern is the very first collection of essays on Barrie which attempts to do justice to the extraordinary range of his literary achievement. What emerges is a significant writer, fully immersed in the literary and intellectual culture of his day.
Del 22 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Empires and Revolutions
Cunninghame Graham and His Contemporaries
AvCarla Sassi,Silke Stroh
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
335 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The European age of empires launched a process of capitalist globalisation that continues to the present day. It is also inextricably linked with the spread of revolutionary discourses (in terms of race, nation or social class): the quest for emancipation, political independence, and economic equality. R. B. Cunninghame Graham (1852–1936), in both his life and his oeuvre, most effectively represents the complex interaction between imperial and revolutionary discourses in this dramatic period. Throughout his life he was an outspoken critic of injustice and inequality, and his appreciation of the demands and customs of diverse territories and contrasting cultures were hallmarks of his life, his political ideas, and his writing. These essays explore the expression of these ideas in the works of Cunninghame Graham and of other Scottish writers of the period.
Del 23 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Land of Story-Books
Scottish Children's Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century
AvSarah Dunnigan,Shu-Fang Lai
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
321 kr
Skickas
This volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children’s literature throughout the long nineteenth century. As well as revisiting much-loved authors such as Stevenson, Barrie, and MacDonald, it explores the neglected role of women writers in shaping the inheritance of Scottish children’s literature, the significant contribution of Gaelic writers, and the role of folklore and tradition. Essays also examine the significance of children as literary protagonists, and as readers themselves. In recovering these marginal voices and texts, and in showing how well-known stories explore questions of culture, identity, and language, The Land of Story-Booksseeks to restore the traditions of children’s writing to the heart of Scottish literary history.
Del 24 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Crooked Dividend
Essays on Muriel Spark
AvGerard Carruthers,Helen Stoddart
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
283 kr
Skickas
This volume of fourteen essays offers fresh insight into the life and work of Muriel Spark (1918-2006), one of Scotland's most internationally celebrated writers. Known for her cultural cosmopolitanism and sharp wit, Spark was prolific as a novelist, poet, short story writer, dramatist, and literary critic. The Crooked Dividend provides a thorough overview of Spark's multifaceted work and examines the cultural, literary, and personal frameworks that shaped her writing. These essays contextualise Spark within post-war British culture, analyse the influence of longstanding Scottish literary traditions on her work, and explore the full range of her literary output through topics such as gender, religion, and politics. In a comprehensive examination of her publications, archive material, and colourful career, this volume celebrates and reaffirms Spark's international legacy.
Del 25 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Christianity in Scottish Literature
AvJohn Pazdziora
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
283 kr
Skickas
The experiences of being Christian and living amid a culture shaped by various iterations of Christianity are long-standing concerns of Scottish literature. This volume moves through Scotland’s literary history, from the early medieval era to the twenty-first century, to explore how Christianity has provided Scottish writers with a framework on which to build their manifold literary selves. Walter Scott, Margaret Oliphant and Edwin Morgan are among the writers revisited in this collection to examine the enduring influence of Christian liturgy, language and belief on Scottish fiction, drama and poetry. These fifteen essays offer contrasting, sometimes disharmonious readings of what it means to be Christian and Scottish, and work to illuminate Scottish literature’s complex relationship and interplay with Christianity.
Del 26 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Writing Scottishness
Literature and the Shaping of Scottish National Identities
AvIan Brown,Clarisse Godard Desmarest
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
278 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Scotland's sense of national identity and cultural distinctiveness has long been articulated through its literature. These fourteen essays explore literary manifestations of Scottishness and examine the political, religious and cultural complexities, as well as the cross-national transfer of ideas, that have shaped Scottish writing and performance through the centuries. By analysing the works of canonical writers such as Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside sometimes marginalised figures, including Gaelic-language poets and women novelists, this volume offers a comprehensive and diverse understanding of writing Scottishness. The collection draws not only on Scottish texts but also Scottish song culture, cinematic adaptations and literary walking trails to shed new light on the nation's negotiation of its identity through its cultural creations.
Nyhet
Del 27 - ASLS Occasional Papers
Stevenson and Pleasure
AvJulie Gay,Lesley Grahamm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
348 kr
Skickas
‘In the life of the artist there need be no hour without its pleasure’—Robert Louis StevensonThis volume explores how pleasure – sensory, intellectual, and aesthetic – influenced Robert Louis Stevenson’s work, and its reception. Engaging with a range of critical and theoretical perspectives, the contributors examine Stevenson’s representations of pleasure as a recurring theme across his essays, fiction, and travel writing, as well as later adaptations. They also consider how his writing invites affective and interpretive pleasures that are at once personal and communal, ethical and escapist. Structured around bodily and mental pleasures, creative processes, and intertextual or intermedial engagements, these essays reposition pleasure as a vital lens for understanding Stevenson’s literary practice and enduring appeal.

ASLS Occasional Papers – serie

Crossing the Highland Line

Scottish and International Modernisms

Rethinking George MacDonald

Gateway to the Modern

Empires and Revolutions

Land of Story-Books

Crooked Dividend

Christianity in Scottish Literature

Writing Scottishness

Stevenson and Pleasure

ASLS Occasional Papers – serie

Crossing the Highland Line

Scottish and International Modernisms

Rethinking George MacDonald

Gateway to the Modern

Empires and Revolutions

Land of Story-Books

Crooked Dividend

Christianity in Scottish Literature

Writing Scottishness

Stevenson and Pleasure