The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707–1918)

Ian Brown; Thomas Clancy; Susan Manning; Murray Pittock

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The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature

Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707–1918)

Ian Brown , Thomas Clancy , Susan Manning and Murray Pittock

Part of the multi-volume work

Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2006

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Between 1707 and 1918, Scotland underwent arguably the most dramatic upheavals in its political, economic and social history. The Union with England, industrialisation and Scotland's subsequent defining contributions throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the culture of Britain and Empire are reflected in the transformative energies of Scottish literature and literary institutions in the period. New genres, new concerns and whole new areas of interest opened under the creative scrutiny of sceptical minds. This second volume of the History reveals the major contribution made by Scottish writers and Scottish writing to the shape of modernity in Britain, Europe and the world.

The other volumes in the History are:

The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, Volume 1: From Columba to the Union (until 1707)

The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, Volume 3: Modern Transformations: New Identities (from 1918)

Key Features

Original - presents new approaches to what is literature and what is Scottishness.

Inclusive - Gaelic and diasporic writing, Latin writing, theological writing, legal writing, and context chapters.

Comprehensive - provides the fullest coverage of Scottish literature ever and the first survey for almost 20 years.

Distinguished contributors from many countries.

Influences the agenda for critical debate on Scottish writing in the twenty-first century.

Topics

Literary Studies Literary Studies, general

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
1. Scotland as North Britain: The Historical Background, 1707–1918 T. C. Smout Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
2. A Nation Transformed: Scotland’s Geography, 1707–1918 Charles W. J. Withers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	12
3. Standards and Differences: Languages in Scotland, 1707–1918 Charles Jones and Wilson McLeod Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
4. The International Reception and Literary Impact of Scottish Literature of the Period 1707–1918 Paul Barnaby and Tom Hubbard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
5. Post-Union Scotland and the Scottish Idiom of Britishness Susan Manning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
6. The Emergence of Privacy: Letters, Journals and Domestic Writing Karina Williamson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
7. Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment Ian Duncan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
8. Ramsay, Fergusson, Thomson, Davidson and Urban Poetry Sören Hammerschmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	80
9. The Ossianic Revival, James Beattie and Primitivism Dafydd Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	90
10. Scottish–Irish Connections, 1707–1918 Gerard Carruthers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	99
11. Scottish Song and the Jacobite Cause Murray Pittock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
12. Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair and the New Gaelic Poetry Ronald Black Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	110
13. Orality and Public Poetry Leith Davis and Maureen N. McLane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
14. Varieties of Public Performance: Folk Songs, Ballads, Popular Drama and Sermons Janet Sorensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
15. Historiography, Biography and Identity Karen O’Brien and Susan Manning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
16. Scotland’s Literature of Empire and Emigration, 1707–1918 Nigel Leask Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
17. Tobias Smollett Ian Campbell Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	163
18. Writing Scotland: Robert Burns Carol McGuirk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	169
20. Walter Scott Fiona Robertson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	183
21. Law Books, 1707–1918 John W. Cairns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	191
22. Periodicals, Encyclopaedias and Nineteenth-Century Literary Production David Finkelstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	198
23. Hogg, Galt, Scott and their Milieu Ian Duncan and Douglas Mack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
24. The Scottish Book Trade at Home and Abroad, 1707–1918 Bill Bell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
25. The National Drama, Joanna Baillie and the National Theatre Barbara Bell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	228
26. The Literature of Industrialisation Alan Riach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	236
27. The Carlyles and Victorianism Chris R. Vanden Bossche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	244
28. Gaelic Literature in the Nineteenth Century Donald E. Meek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
29. Nineteenth-Century Scottish Thought Cairns Craig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267
30. Travel Writing, 1707–1918 Catherine Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
31. ‘Half a trade and half an art’: Adult and Juvenile Fiction in the Victorian Period Colin Milton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	286
32. Nineteenth-Century Scottish Poetry Laura Mandell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301
33. The Press, Newspaper Fiction and Literary Journalism, 1707–1918 Bob Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	308
34. The Kailyard: Problem or Illusion? Andrew Nash Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	317
35. Robert Louis Stevenson Penny Fielding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	324
36. J. M. Barrie R. D. S. Jack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	331
37. Patrick Geddes and the Celtic Revival Murray Pittock and Isla Jack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	338
38. The Collectors: John Francis Campbell and Alexander Carmichael John Shaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347
39. Gaelic Literature and the Diaspora Michael Newton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	353
40. The Literature of Religious Revival and Disruption Donald E. Meek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	360
Notes on Contributors – Volume Two Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	371
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	376

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November 13, 2006

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9780748630646

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400

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748630646

eBook ISBN: 9780748630646

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Literary Studies

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The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature

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