About the Book
The Edinburgh History of Scottish LiteratureGeneral Editor: Ian BrownCo-editors: Thomas Owen Clancy, Susan Manning and Murray PittockThe Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature offers a major reinterpretation, re-evaluation and repositioning of the scope, nature and importance of Scottish Literature, arguably Scotland's most important and influential contribution to world culture. Drawing on the very best of recent scholarship, the History contributes a wide range of new and exciting insights. It takes full account of modern theory, but refuses to be in thrall to critical fashion. It is important not only for literary scholars, but because it changes the very way we think about what Scottishness is.The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, Volume 3:Modern Transformations: New Identities (from 1918)Period and General Editor: Ian BrownCo-editors: Thomas Owen Clancy, Susan Manning and Murray PittockIn almost a century since the First World War ended, Scotland has been transformed in many rich ways. Its literature has been an essential part of that transformation. The third volume of the History,/i> explores the vibrancy of modern Scottish literature in all its forms and languages. Giving full credit to writing in Gaelic and by the Scottish diaspora, it brings together the best contemporary critical insights from three continents. It provides an accessible and refreshing picture of both the varieties of Scottish literatures and the kaleidoscopic versions of Scotland that mark literary developments since 1918.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 2: Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707-1918)Key Features* Original - presents new approaches to what is literature and what is Scottishness.* Inclusive - Gaelic and diasporic writing, Latin writing, theol
Table of Contents:
Preface, Ian Brown, Thomas Clancy, Susan Manning and Murray Pittock; Chapter 1 - Changing cultures: the history of Scotland since 1918 Richard Finlay; Chapter 2 - Notes on a small country: Scotland's geography since 1918, Hayden Lorimer; Chapter 3 - Resistance to monolinguality: the languages of Scotland since 1918, Wilson Mcleod and Jeremy Smith; Chapter 4 - The International Reception and Literary Impact of Scottish Literature of the period since 1918, Paul Barnaby and Tom Hubbard; Chapter 5 - The Criticism of Scottish Literature: tradition, decline and renovation., Cairns Craig; Chapter 6 - Literature and the Screen Media since 1908, Richard Butt; Chapter 7 - Material Culture in Modern Scotland , Murray Pittock; Chapter 8 - Sir James Frazer And Marian McNeill, Robert Fraser; Chapter 9 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Alan Riach; Chapter 10 - Edwin and Willa Muir: Scottish, European and Gender Journeys 1918-1969, Margery Palmer McCulloch; Chapter 11 - 'To get leave to live': negotiating regional identity in the literature of North-east Scotland, Alison Lumsden; Chapter 12 - Disorientation of place, time and 'Scottishness': Conan Doyle, Linklater, Gunn, Mackay Brown and Elphinstone, Ian Campbell; Chapter 13 - Past and Present: Modern Scottish Historical Fiction, Colin Milton; Chapter 14 - Tradition and Modernity: Gaelic Bards in the Twentieth Century, Thomas A McKean; Chapter 15 - Theatres, Writers and Society: Structures and infrastructures of theatre provision in twentieth-century Scotland, David Hutchison; Chapter 16 - Cultural Catalysts: Sorley MacLean and George Campbell Hay, Christopher Whyte; Chapter 17 - Living with the double tongue: modern poetry in Scots, Roderick Watson; Chapter 18 - Monsters and Goddesses: culture re-energised in the poetry of Ruaraidh MacThòmais and Aonghas MacNeacail, Michel Byrne; Chapter 19 - Old Country, New Dreams: Scottish Poetry since the 1970s, Eleanor Bell; Chapter 20 - The Lost Boys and Girls of Scottish Children's Fiction, Maureen A Farrell; Chapter 21 - The human and textual condition: Muriel Spark's narratives, Margaret Elphinstone; Chapter 22 - From Carswell to Kay: Aspects of Gender, the Novel and the Drama, Susanne Hagemann; Chapter 23 - The Autobiography in Scottish Gaelic, Meg Bateman; Chapter 24 -Varieties of voice and changing contexts: Robin Jenkins, Janice Galloway, Bernard Sellin; Chapter 25 - Breaking Boundaries: From Modern to Contemporary in Scottish Fiction , Douglas Gifford; Chapter 26 - Re-imagining the city: end of the century cultural signs in the novels of McIlvanney, Banks, Gray, Welsh, Kelman, Owens, and Rankin., Marie Odile Pittin-Hédon; Chapter 27 - The Border crossers and reconfiguration of the possible: poet-playwright-novelists from the mid twentieth century on, Ian Brown and Colin Nicholson; Chapter 28 - Struggling for status and the limits of the twentieth century Gaelic literary revival: the short story, novel and drama in Gaelic, Michelle MacLeod and Moray Watson; Chapter 29 - Staging the Nation: multiplicity and cultural diversity in contemporary Scottish theatre, Ian Brown; Chapter 30 - Varieties of Gender Politics, Sexuality and Thematic Innovation in late Twentieth-century Drama, Ksenija Horvat; Chapter 31 - The Diaspora and its writers, Iain Wright; Chapter 32 - New Diversity, Hybridity and Scottishness, Alastair Niven.
