International Companions to Scottish Literature – serie
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International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Av Scott Lyall
Häftad, 2015
359 kr
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Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell), the author of the acclaimed trilogy A Scots Quair - Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite - is one of the most important Scottish writers of the early twentieth century. This INTERNATIONAL COMPANION provides a thorough overview of Gibbon's writing. …
International Companion to Edwin Morgan
Av Alan Riach
Häftad, 2015
426 kr
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Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) is one of the giants of modern poetry. Scotland's national poet from 2004 to his death in 2010, in his long life he produced an incredible range of work, from the playful to the profound. This INTERNATIONAL COMPANION gives a comprehensive overview of Morgan's poetry and …
International Companion to Scottish Poetry
Av Carla Sassi
Häftad, 2016
359 kr
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The International Companions series offers essential insights into Scottish literary studies, covering key authors, periods and topics from the medieval to the contemporary. A range of leading international scholars provide the reader with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the …
International Companion to James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian
Av Dafydd Moore
Häftad, 2017
413 kr
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James Macpherson’s “Poems of Ossian”, first published from 1760 as Fragments of Ancient Poetry, were the literary sensation of the age. Attacked by Samuel Johnson and others as “forgeries”, nonetheless the poems enthralled readers around the world, attracting rapturous admiration from figures as …
International Companion to Scottish Literature 1400–1650
Av Nicola Royan
Häftad, 2018
426 kr
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Between 1400 and 1650 Scotland underwent a series of drastic changes, in court, culture, and religion. Renaissance and Reformation, the Union of the Crowns, and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms all shaped the nation, shifting and recasting Scotland’s established relationships with Europe, the …
International Companion to John Galt
Av Gerard Carruthers, Colin Kidd
Häftad, 2017
426 kr
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John Galt (1779–1839) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen, and a friend and biographer of Lord Byron. Although a prolific writer, and much admired in his own lifetime, Galt has never achieved comparable levels of literary fame, and his works – poised between Enlightenment and …
International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
Av Leith Davis, Janet Sorensen
Häftad, 2021
359 kr
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The period from 1650 to 1800 encompasses the Restoration, the 1688 Revolution, the failure of the Company of Scotland's Darien colony, the 1707 Acts of Union, the Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1745, and the emergence of the new British Empire as a global superpower. It also witnessed religious, …
International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature
Av Sheila M. Kidd, Caroline McCracken-Flesher m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
359 kr
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The nineteenth century has been regarded as an era of decline for Scottish literature. This INTERNATIONAL COMPANION shows that it was instead a transformational period. Through a lively and extensive publishing community, widely varied Scottish writers found expression. New voices and genres …
International Companion to Scottish Children's Literature
Av Maureen Farrell, Robert Davis
Häftad, 2024
359 kr
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The work of Scottish authors writing for children has often been subsumed into the category of British or even ‘English’ literature, with little critical attention paid to its distinctively Scottish character. In the first major exploration of Scottish children’s literature this INTERNATIONAL …
International Companion to the Scottish Novel
Av Cairns Craig
Häftad, 2025
359 kr
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Are novelists from Scotland, even internationally influential ones like Walter Scott or Muriel Spark, merely contributors to a wider English literature, or is there a separate and specific tradition of the Scottish novel that gives meaning and significance to their work? This INTERNATIONAL …
