The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, Volume Three: Modern Transformations: New Identities (from 1918)

✍ Scribed by Ian Brown, Thomas Owen Clancy, Susan Manning, Murray Pittock

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 369
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

These three volumes in offer a major reinterpretation, re-evaluation, and repositioning of what is arguably Scotland's most important and influential contribution to world culture-its literature. Drawing on the very best of recent scholarship, the History contributes a wide range of new and exciting insights and offers a new interpretation of what it means to be "Scottish." These anthologies contribute a wide range of new and exciting insights. The first volume begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. It covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English, and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. The second volume deals with a period in which Scotland underwent some of the most dramatic upheavals in its history. It reveals how Scottish writers in shaping the modernity of Britain, Europe and the world. The third volume explores Scottish literature in all its forms and languages since the end of the World War I, bringing together the best contemporary critical insights from three continents.

✦ Table of Contents

COPYRIGHT......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 9
1 Changing Cultures: The History of Scotland since 1918......Page 12
2 Notes on a Small Country: Scotland’s Geography since 1918......Page 22
3 Resistance to Monolinguality: The Languages of Scotland since 1918......Page 32
4 The International Reception and Literary Impact of Scottish Literature of the Period since 1918......Page 42
5 The Criticism of Scottish Literature: Tradition, Decline and Renovation......Page 53
6 Literature and the Screen Media since 1908......Page 64
7 Material Culture in Modern Scotland......Page 75
8 Sir James Frazer and Marian McNeill......Page 80
9 Hugh MacDiarmid......Page 86
10 Edwin and Willa Muir: Scottish, European and Gender Journeys, 1918–69......Page 95
11 ‘To Get Leave to Live’: Negotiating Regional Identity in the Literature of North-East Scotland......Page 106
12 Disorientation of Place, Time and ‘Scottishness’: Conan Doyle, Linklater, Gunn, Mackay Brown and Elphinstone......Page 117
13 Past and Present: Modern Scottish Historical Fiction......Page 125
14 Tradition and Modernity: Gaelic Bards in the Twentieth Century......Page 141
15 Theatres, Writers and Society: Structures and Infrastructures of Theatre Provision in Twentieth- Century Scotland......Page 153
16 Cultural Catalysts: Sorley MacLean and George Campbell Hay......Page 162
17 Living with the Double Tongue: Modern Poetry in Scots......Page 174
18 Monsters and Goddesses: Culture Re-energised in the Poetry of Ruaraidh MacThòmais and Aonghas MacNeacail......Page 187
19 Old Country, New Dreams: Scottish Poetry since the 1970s......Page 196
20 The Lost Boys and Girls of Scottish Children’s Fiction......Page 209
21 The Human and Textual Condition: Muriel Spark’s Narratives......Page 218
22 From Carswell to Kay: Aspects of Gender, the Novel and the Drama......Page 225
23 The Autobiography in Scottish Gaelic......Page 236
24 Varieties of Voice and Changing Contexts: Robin Jenkins and Janice Galloway......Page 242
25 Breaking Boundaries: From Modern to Contemporary in Scottish Fiction......Page 248
26 Re-imagining the City: End of the Century Cultural Signs in the Novels of McIlvanney, Banks, Gray, Welsh, Kelman, Owens and Rankin......Page 264
27 The Border Crossers and Reconfiguration of the Possible: Poet-Playwright-Novelists from the Mid-Twentieth Century on......Page 273
28 In the Shadow of the Bard: The Gaelic Short Story, Novel and Drama since the early Twentieth Century......Page 284
29 Staging the Nation: Multiplicity and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary Scottish Theatre......Page 294
30 Varieties of Gender Politics, Sexuality and Thematic Innovation in Late Twentieth-Century Drama......Page 306
31 The Diaspora and its Writers......Page 315
32 New Diversity, Hybridity and Scottishness......Page 331
Notes on Contributors – Volume Three......Page 343
Index......Page 348