Writing Scottishness
Literature and the Shaping of Scottish National Identities
Published on 4. September 2023
294 pages
978-1-908980-40-3 (ISBN)
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These fourteen essays explore literary manifestations of Scottishness and examine the political, religious and cultural complexities that have shaped Scottish writing and performance through the centuries.
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Ian Brown | Clarisse Godard Desmarest
Writing Scottishness
Literature and the Shaping of Scottish National Identities
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09/2023
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front matter
- Title page
- Copyright
- Body
- Introduction
- 1. Inscribing Scottishness in Language, Space, and Performance since the Seventeenth Century
- 2. Lethington, Marie Maitland, and the 'Maitland Quarto': Memorialisation and Performance in Times of 'Troubill' for Scotland
- 3. Translating Identities: Tracing the Transfer of a Scottish Origin Myth from Scotland to France c. 1519
- 4. 'Losing its religion'? Scottish Literature and Confessional Identity
- 5. Collective Identities and the Other in Scottish Jacobite Songs
- 6. Napoleon and Ossian: Celtomania and the Construction of French Nationhood
- 7. Transatlantic 'Scott-land': Re-locating the Late Waverley Novels within a Transatlantic Discussion
- 8. Questions of Identity on the Stevenson Trail in Scotland
- 9. The Safe Nationalisms of Hugh MacDiarmid and Compton Mackenzie
- 10. Situating the Gael in Scottish Landscapes: Self-Identity and Change in Twentieth-Century Gaelic Poetry
- 11. Critiquing Scotland's Clever Clocks and MacGrundies: Willa Muir's Nationalist Feminism
- 12. 'This is Scotland, by Christ!': Cultural Nationalism and National (Re)Branding in the Cinematic Adaptations of Irvine Welsh
- 13. George Davie's Democratic Intellect in Context
- 14. Writing Scottishness in Post-imperial, Post-devolution Theatre: a Conversation
- Back matter
- Notes on contributors
- Index
- Back cover
