The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature

Sheila M. Kidd, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Kenneth McNeil (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2022
Scottish Literature International (Verlag)
978-1-908980-35-9 (ISBN)

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In nineteenth-century Scottish literature, new voices and genres flourished. Alongside giants such as Scott and Stevenson, women, working, immigrant, and emigrant authors – writing in English, Gaelic, and Scots – propelled Scotland onto the international literary stage. This INTERNATIONAL COMPANION explores this complex and fertile period.

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 flourished. Alongside cultural giants such as Scott and Stevenson, women, working-class, immigrant, and emigrant authors – writing in English, Gaelic, and Scots – propelled Scotland onto the international literary stage. From Shetland to Tasmania, from Celtic Twilight to science fiction, this volume explores the many modes of Scottish expression that emerged from this complex and fertile age.

Series Editors’ Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Strangeness of Centuries (Sheila M. Kidd, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, and Kenneth McNeil)

PART 1: EXPERIMENTS

1. Gaelic Poets and New Patterns of Patronage (Ruairidh Maciver)

2. Inspiring Songs: The Rise of Ballad Culture (Valentina Bold)

3. The Novel: Romance and History (Pam Perkins)

4. Slavery, Kinship, and Capital (Michael Morris)

5. Private Thoughts and Public Display: Gender, Genre, and Lives (Susan Oliver)

6. The Gothic, Supernatural, and Religious (Samuel Baker)

7. Drama and Adaptation (Barbara Bell)

8. The Short Story to 1832 (Thomas C. Richardson)

PART 2: CONSOLIDATIONS

9. Diaries and Letters (Paul Barnaby)

10. Public Education, Science, and Metaphor (Cairns Craig)

11. Religion and Popular Literature in Scotland: The Literary Imagination as Inspiration (Alison Jack)

12. Social Comment (Regina Hewitt)

13. ‘Urban Folk’: Scottish Victorian Adaptations and Transmutations of Earlier Verse Traditions (C. M. Jackson-Houlston)

14. Gaelic Literature of the Diaspora (Sheila M. Kidd)

15. David Pae, the Newspaper Novel, and the Imagined Community of North Britain (Graham Law)

16. Industrial-Strength Fiction: Margaret Oliphant and James Grant (Joanne Wilkes)

17. Scottish Travel Writing (Jennifer Hayward)

18. Travel Writing about the Highlands in the Nineteenth

Century (Nigel Leask)

PART 3: EXPANSIONS

19. City Songs (Kirstie Blair)

20. Gaelic Political Poetry 1870–1900 (Priscilla Scott)

21. The Kailyard Novelists (Andrew Nash)

22. The International Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (Lesley Graham)

23. Celticists and Anthropologists (Michael Shaw)

24. Science and Speculation (Julia Reid)

25. Scotland’s New Women (Juliet Shields)

Endnotes

Further Reading

Notes on Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	International Companions to Scottish Literature
Verlagsort	Glasgow
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	461 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-908980-35-4 / 1908980354
ISBN-13	978-1-908980-35-9 / 9781908980359
Zustand	Neuware