The Scots
Published on 18. August 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-19-282118-8 (ISBN)
Description
An analysis of the Scottish psyche, identity and history focusing on invention, development, and the perpetuation of Scottish national myths from personal observations by Iain Finlayson, himself a Scot, and quotations from writers like R.L. Stevenson, Edwin Muir, Hugh MacDiarmid, Muriel Spark and Dr Johnson among others. The study covers a wide range of topics, including literature and the arts, history, religion, politics, education, towns, countryside and humour. Iain Finlayson is a writer and journalist and author of "The moth and the candle" (a life of James Boswell).
An analysis of the Scottish psyche, identity and history focusing on invention, development, and the perpetuation of Scottish national myths from personal observations by Iain Finlayson, himself a Scot, and quotations from writers like R.L. Stevenson, Edwin Muir, Hugh MacDiarmid, Muriel Spark and Dr Johnson among others. The study covers a wide range of topics, including literature and the arts, history, religion, politics, education, towns, countryside and humour. Iain Finlayson is a writer and journalist and author of "The moth and the candle" (a life of James Boswell).
An analysis of the Scottish psyche, identity and history focusing on invention, development, and the perpetuation of Scottish national myths from personal observations by Iain Finlayson, himself a Scot, and quotations from writers like R.L. Stevenson, Edwin Muir, Hugh MacDiarmid, Muriel Spark and Dr Johnson among others. The study covers a wide range of topics, including literature and the arts, history, religion, politics, education, towns, countryside and humour. Iain Finlayson is a writer and journalist and author of "The moth and the candle" (a life of James Boswell).
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
1 plate, 16 pp half-tones, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 130 mm
Weight
221 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-282118-8 (9780192821188)
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Content
A cautionary foreword. A small country - pride, poverty and prejudice; the Caledonian antizyzygy - the divided Scot; two nations - highland and lowland Scots; Caledonia, stern and wild - the invention of romance; the Scot on the make - the pursuit of success; a nation epidemical - the migrant Scot; clans and chiefs - communality among the Scots; formerly of better account - Scotland's golden agers; red Clyde and blue blood - politics and the Scots; the Lyon rampant - the constant nationalist; a nation theological - from Calvin to the Knoxplex; the thistle looks at a drunk man - bards and booze; the clash of cultures - MacDiarmid and Lauder; Caledonian salt - the sardonic Scot; the passionate Scot - the puritan and the phoenix. Bibliography. Index.