Scottish Studies International – serie
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10 produkter
Striving for «The Whole Duty of Man»
James Legge and the Scottish Protestant Encounter with China. Assessing Confluences in Scottish Nonconformism, Chinese Missionary Scholarship, Victorian Sinology, and Chinese Protestantism. Volume I and Volume II
Häftad, 2004
2062 kr
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This is an intellectual biography of the early life and missionary career of James Legge (1815-1897), a monumental figure in 19th century European sinology. In the first volume details about Legge’s family, religious setting, and educational experiences in northeastern Scotland are shown to anchor …
Parritch and the Partridge: The Reception of Robert Burns in Germany
A History. 2nd Revised and Augmented Edition
Inbunden, 2013
1350 kr
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This book sets out to explore the reception of Scotland’s best-loved writer Robert Burns in Germany, beginning with Burns’s contemporaries in a German state and at a time when instant international fame of foreign writers was yet to develop. The author traces Burns’s growing popularity and, for …
Scotland 2014 and Beyond – Coming of Age and Loss of Innocence?
Inbunden, 2015
1034 kr
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This book examines Scotland from a great variety of international and disciplinary perspectives, offering viewpoints from ordinary citizens as well as experts in culture, history, literature, sociology, politics, the law, and the media. The texts investigate the mental processes, dispositions, and …
Constructing Scottish Identity in Media Discourses
The Use of Common Sense Knowledge in the Scottish Press
Inbunden, 2015
1383 kr
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Scotland’s efforts to establish and assert its distinct national identity have a long tradition. National identity has been a central theme throughout the centuries in a country where economic, political, and social issues have tended to be closely bound up with questions of national mentality and …
Inspiring Views from «a' the airts» on Scottish Literatures, Art and Cinema
The First World Congress of Scottish Literatures in Glasgow 2014
Av Klaus Peter Müller, Ilka Schwittlinsky m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1208 kr
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Where do Scottish literatures, art, and cinema stand today? What and how do Scottish Studies investigate? Creative writers and scholars give answers to these questions and address vital concerns in Scottish, British, and European history from the Union debate and the Enlightenment to Brexit, ethnic …
Mythology of Tourism
The Works of Sir Walter Scott and the Development of Tourism in Scotland
Av Lingwei Meng, Klaus Peter Müller
Inbunden, 2018
1227 kr
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Scott’s influence on Scottish tourism is widely discussed among scholars. However, only a few have provided a holistic analysis of the relationship between Scott and Scottish tourism from the 19th to the 21st Century in a theoretical framework. This book reveals how the myth of Scott has been …
Scotland and Arbroath 1320 – 2020
700 Years of Fighting for Freedom, Sovereignty, and Independence
Inbunden, 2020
1417 kr
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700 years of people in Scotland, England, Europe, and the world fighting for freedom, sovereignty, independence and justice are investigated in the essential periods and cultures since the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath: the Middle Ages, the Reformation and Early Modern Age, the English Revolution, …
Postmodern Strategies in Alasdair Gray’s «Lanark: A Life in 4 Books»
Av Luis de Juan, Horst W. Drescher
Häftad, 2003
900 kr
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This book shows how Alasdair Gray’s first novel, Lanark: A Life in 4 Books, shares some of the thematic and formal concerns of postmodernist literature. The analysis is preceded by an introductory chapter which relates Gray to both the English and the Scottish literary traditions. Next, the author …
Anti-Catholic Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Av Clotilde Prunier, Horst W. Drescher
Häftad, 2004
617 kr
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This book analyses the relationship between Presbyterians and Catholics in eighteenth-century Scotland. The author considers the weapons wielded against the Scottish Catholic Mission by the state and by the Church of Scotland – penal laws, Royal Bounty missions and SSPCK schools. Once the …
Imagined Worlds
Fiction by Scottish Women 1900-1935
Av Alan Freeman, Horst W. Drescher
Häftad, 2005
750 kr
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This is a study of fiction by Scottish women spanning the late 1890s to the early 1930s. Seven authors are included: Violet Jacob, Mary and Jane Helen Findlater, Lorna Moon, Catherine Carswell, Willa Muir, and Nan Shepherd. It identifies a continuity of development within and between the women’s …
