SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature – serie
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Scott's Novels and the Counter-Revolutionary Politics of Place
Av Dani Napton
Inbunden, 2018
2201 kr
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Counter-revolutionary or wary progressive? Critical apologist for the Stuart and Hanoverian dynasties? What are the political and cultural significances of place when Scott represents the instabilities generated by the Union? Scott's Novels and the Counter-Revolutionary Politics of Place analyses …
Emblems in Scotland
Motifs and Meanings
Av Michael Bath
Inbunden, 2018
2374 kr
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Emblems in the visual arts use motifs which have meanings, and in Emblems in Scotland Michael Bath, leading authority on Renaissance emblem books, shows how such symbolic motifs address major historical issues of Anglo-Scottish relations, the Reformation of the Church and the Union of the Crowns. …
Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet
Essays on His Life and Work
Inbunden, 2020
2301 kr
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Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet: Essays on His Life and Work offers the first substantial work to assess his life and writings since his premature death in 1975. Considered a major figure in the second wave of Hugh MacDiarmid’s ‘Scottish Literary Renaissance’, Smith’s unique body of work has largely …
Marriage in James Hogg’s Work
Plotting for Gender, Class, and Ethnic Equality
Inbunden, 2022
1887 kr
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Throughout his career, self-taught Scottish writer James Hogg (1770-1835) violated literary proprieties which discouraged the frank treatment of prostitution, infanticide, and the violence of war. Contemporary reviewers received Hogg’s bluntness rather fiercely because, in so doing, he questioned …
Sonnets of Thomas Pringle
Migration and Poetic Form
Inbunden, 2023
2139 kr
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When the Scottish poet Thomas Pringle emigrated to the Cape Colony in 1820 he voyaged also into a new creative life and an art responsive to his colonial home, “sterner verse” for “darker scenes”. Accompanying him to the Cape, the sonnet became his most consistent choice for capturing his …
Scotland’s Harvest
Scottish Poetry and World War Two
Inbunden, 2023
1804 kr
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This study is the first exploration of the impact of World War Two on Scottish poets of both the front line and the home front. World War One has always been thought of as a poet’s war, one of horror and futility. The poetry of World War Two, by contrast, has long languished in its shadow, though …
Scottish Literature of the South Seas
Critical Studies of Scotland and the Pacific
Inbunden, 2025
1727 kr
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This volume, edited by Richard J. Hill and Allison E. Francis, explores literary connections between Scotland and the Pacific. The contributors, including some of the world’s foremost scholars in Scottish and Pacific studies, examine how Scottish writing about the Pacific, and Pacific engagement …
Scotland and China
Literary Encounters
Inbunden, 2025
1970 kr
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This volume, written by young and established scholars, surveys the role of China in Scottish literature, and the translation and reception of Scottish literature in China. Part 1 considers how the image of China has been constructed by Scottish writers. Topics include the translation of classical …
Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023
Visions and Revisions
Inbunden, 2026
2044 kr
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This edited volume provides a contemporary reappraisal of the work and legacy of Hugh MacDiarmid, presenting new perspectives from an international group of researchers. Addressing pivotal elements of MacDiarmid’s biography, politics, aesthetics and multilingual literary practice, this collection …
Bella Caledonia
Woman, Nation, Text
Häftad, 2008
859 kr
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Bella Caledonia: Woman, Nation, Text looks at the widespread tradition of using a female figure to represent the nation, focusing on twentieth-century Scottish literature. The woman-as-nation figure emerged in Scotland in the twentieth century, but as a literary figure rather than an institutional …
Disappearing Men
Gender Disorientation in Scottish Fiction 1979-1999
Av Carole Jones
Häftad, 2009
1205 kr
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Disappearing Men examines the complex and rebellious representations of gender in the work of several writers of ‘devolutionary’ Scottish fiction in the period 1979 to 1999. The study focuses on the context of a ‘crisis in masculinity’ accompanying the rapidly changing male role in the period, …
Beyond Identity
New Horizons in Modern Scottish Poetry
Av Attila Dósa
Häftad, 2009
1972 kr
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In Beyond Identity, thirteen of Scotland’s best known poets reflect upon the theoretical, practical and political considerations involved in the act of writing. They furnish a unique guide to contemporary Scottish poetry, discussing a range of issues that include nationhood, education, language, …
Scottish Romance Tradition c. 1375–c. 1550
Nation, Chivalry and Knighthood
Av Sergi Mainer
Häftad, 2010
1715 kr
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This is the first ever comprehensive study of the Scottish medieval romances. The book reinstates the status of the Scottish romances. It offers a new definition of the Scottish romance tradition, bringing together texts which have not generally been considered part of the same corpus. It argues …
Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment
Av Pam Perkins
Häftad, 2010
1901 kr
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This volume provides an overview of women writers in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Edinburgh literary world. Its main focus is on the careers of three women – Elizabeth Hamilton, Anne Grant, and Christian Isobel Johnstone – who were both successful and influential in their own …
Myths and the Mythmaker
A Literary Account of J.M. Barrie’s Formative Years
Av R.D.S. Jack
Häftad, 2010
2044 kr
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J.M. Barrie’s critical reputation is unusually problematic. Originally viewed as a genius to rank with Shaw and Wilde, Barrie soon fell victim to damaging psychological theories about his life and his patriotism. The few critics who have commented on Barrie have colluded with dominant myths about a …
Uneasy Subjects
Postcolonialism and Scottish Gaelic Poetry
Av Silke Stroh
Inbunden, 2011
2223 kr
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Scottish and “Celtic fringe” postcolonialism has caused much controversy and unease in literary studies. Can the non-English territories and peoples of the British Isles, faced with centuries of English hegemony, be meaningfully compared to former overseas colonies? This book is the first …
Scotland and the 19th-Century World
Häftad, 2012
1787 kr
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The nineteenth century is often read as a time of retreat and diffusion in Scottish literature under the overwhelming influence of British identity. Scotland and the 19th-Century World presents Scottish literature as altogether more dynamic, with narratives of Scottish identity working beyond the …
Language in Scotland
Corpus-based Studies
Häftad, 2013
1787 kr
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The chapters in this volume take as their focus aspects of three of the languages of Scotland: Scots, Scottish English, and Scottish Gaelic. They present linguistic research which has been made possible by new and developing corpora of these languages: this encompasses work on lexis and …
Scottish Sixties
Reading, Rebellion, Revolution?
Häftad, 2013
2001 kr
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Although a number of publications have appeared in recent years marking the importance of the ‘swinging sixties’, many tend to be personally reflective in nature and London-centric in their coverage. By contrast, The Scottish Sixties: Reading, Rebellion, Revolution? addresses this misrepresentation …
Scots: Studies in its Literature and Language
Av John M. Kirk
Häftad, 2013
1795 kr
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The skillful use of the Scots language has long been a distinguishing feature of the literatures of Scotland. The essays in this volume make a major contribution to our understanding of the Scots language, past and present, and its written dissemination in poetry, fiction and drama, and in …
Scottish Theatre: Diversity, Language, Continuity
Av Ian Brown
Häftad, 2013
1644 kr
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Challenging the dominant view of a broken and discontinuous dramatic culture in Scotland, this book outlines the variety and richness of the nation´s performance traditions and multilingual theatre history. Brown illuminates enduring strands of hybridity and diversity which use theatre and …
