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

by Ian Brown, Thomas Clancy, Susan Manning, Murray Pittock

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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 2:Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707-1918)Period Editor: Susan Manning General Editor: Ian BrownCo-editors: Thomas Owen Clancy and Murray PittockBetween 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 wha ; This volume reveals the major contribution made by Scottish writers and Scottish writing to the shape of modernity in Britain, Europe and the world between 1707 and 1918. ; Preface; Chapter 1 - Scotland as North Britain: The Historical Background 1707-1918, T. C. Smout; Chapter 2 - A Nation Transformed: Scotland's Geography, 1707-1918, Charles W. J. Withers; Chapter 3 - Standards and Differences: Languages in Scotland, 1707-1918, Charles Jones and Wilson McLeod; Chapter 4 - The International Reception and Literary Impact of Scottish Literature of the period 1707-1918, Paul Barnaby and Tom Hubbard; Chapter 5 - Post-Union Scotland and the Scottish Idiom of Britishness, Susan Manning; Chapter 6 - The Emergence of Privacy: Letters, Journals and Domestic Writing, Karina Williamson; Chapter 7 - Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment, Ian Duncan; Chapter 8 - Ramsay, Fergusson, Thomson, Davidson and Urban Poetry, Sören Hammerschmidt; Chapter 9 - The Ossianic Revival, James Beattie and Primitivism, Dafydd Moore; Chapter 10 - Scottish-Irish Connections 1707-1918, Gerry Carruthers; Chapter 11 - Scottish song and the Jacobite Cause, Murray G. H. Pittock; Chapter 12 - Alastair mac Mhaighstir Alastair and the New Gaelic Poetry, Ronald Black; Chapter 13 - Orality and Public Poetry, Leith Davis and Maureen N. McLane; Chapter 14 - Varieties of Public Performance: Folk Songs, Ballads, Popular Drama and Sermons, Janet Sorensen; Chapter 15 - Historiography, Biography and Identity, Karen O'Brien and Susan Manning; Chapter 16 - Scotland's Literature of Empire and Emigration, 1707-1918, Nigel Leask; Chapter 17 - Tobias George Smollett, Ian Campbell Ross; Chapter 18 - Writing Scotland: Robert Burns, Carol McGuirk; Chapter 19 - Lord Byron, Alan Rawes; Chapter 20 - Walter Scott, Fiona Robertson; Chapter 21 - Law Books 1707-1918, John Cairns; Chapter 22 - Periodicals, Encyclopedias and Nineteenth-Century Literary Production, David Finkelstein; Chapter 23 - Hogg, Galt, Scott and their Milieu, Ian Duncan and Douglas Mack; Chapter 24 - The Scottish Book Trade at Home and Abroad: 1707-1918, Bill Bell; Chapter 25 - The National Drama, Joanna Baillie and the National Theatre, Barbara Bell; Chapter 26 - The Literature of Industrialisation, Alan Riach; Chapter 27 - The Carlyles and Victorianism, Chris R. Vanden Bossche; Chapter 28 - Gaelic Literature in the Nineteenth Century, Donald E. Meek; Chapter 29 - Nineteenth-Century Scottish Thought, Cairns Craig; Chapter 30 - Travel Writing 1707-1918, Catherine Jones; Chapter 31 - Fiction as Art and Commodity: George MacDonald, R. M. Ballantyne, Margaret Oliphant and Arthur Conan Doyle, Colin Milton; Chapter 32 - Nineteenth-Century Scottish Poetry, Laura Mandell; Chapter 33 - The Press, Newspaper Fiction and Literary Journalism, 1707-1918, Bob Harris; Chapter 34 - The Kailyard: Problem or Illusion?, Andrew Nash; Chapter 35 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Penny Fielding; Chapter 36 - J. M. Barrie, R. D. S. Jack; Chapter 37 - Patrick Geddes and the Celtic Revival, Murray Pittock and Isla Jack; Chapter 38 - The Collectors: John Francis Campbell, Alexander Carmichael, John Shaw; Chapter 39 - Gaelic Literature and the Diaspora, Michael Newton; Chapter 40 - The Literature of Religious Revival and Disruption, Donald E. Meek; Notes on Contributors.
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Ian Brown is Professor in Drama at Kingston University. He is General Editor of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature (EUP: 2007) and Series Editor of The Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature, co-editing the volume on the twentieth century (2009) and on drama (due out in 2011).; Thomas Clancy is Lecturer in the Department of Celtic at the University of Glasgow.; The late Susan Manning was Grierson Professor of English Literature, and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.; Murray Pittock is Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, Head of the College of Arts and Vice-Principal. He has formerly held chairs and other senior appointments at Strathclyde, Edinburgh and Manchester universities. His recent work includes Scottish and Irish Romanticism (2008), The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe (2007) and James Boswell (2007). Forthcoming work includes collections on Robert Burns in Glo

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