
Taking Liberties
Scottish Literature and Expressions of Freedom
Scottish Literature International (Publisher)
Published on 4. November 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-908980-21-2 (ISBN)
Description
The notion of "freedom" has long been associated with a number of perceptions deemed fundamental to an understanding of Scotland and the Scots. Thus Scottish history is viewed, resistance to the Roman Empire, to the Wars of Independence against England, to the eighteenth-century Jacobite uprisings, to the birth of the Labour and Trade Union movements. Key Scottish texts have the concept of liberty at their core: the Declaration of Arbroath, Barbour's Brus, Blind Hary's Wallace, the poems of Robert Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid and the novels of Janice Galloway and Irvine Welsh. Scottish thinkers have written extensively on the philosophies of freedom, be it individual, economic, or religious. These essays examine the question of "freedom", its representations and its interpretations within the literatures of Scotland.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Glasgow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
331 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-908980-21-2 (9781908980212)
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Taking Liberties
Scottish Literature and Expressions of Freedom
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