The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707-1918)Ian Brown Edinburgh University Press, 2007 - 400 pàgines 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 |
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... English as ' that rough and uncouth brogue which is so harsh and unpleasant to an English ear ' . The irony of the situation is that the success of the movement in England for linguistic prescriptivism , which was so prominent a feature ...
... English as ' that rough and uncouth brogue which is so harsh and unpleasant to an English ear ' . The irony of the situation is that the success of the movement in England for linguistic prescriptivism , which was so prominent a feature ...
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... English , and to avoid the numerous Scotticisms the BRITON abounds with ; and then [ . . . ] he may be taken for a Scotsman , and I shall pass for an Englishman . ' A comic character in Roderick Random , Mr Concordance , personifies the ...
... English , and to avoid the numerous Scotticisms the BRITON abounds with ; and then [ . . . ] he may be taken for a Scotsman , and I shall pass for an Englishman . ' A comic character in Roderick Random , Mr Concordance , personifies the ...
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... English : ' the Pronunciation is liquid and sonorous , and much fuller than the English ' . Perhaps anticipating the misgivings of an English readership , he celebrates a double fluency in Scots and English , observing that Scots are ...
... English : ' the Pronunciation is liquid and sonorous , and much fuller than the English ' . Perhaps anticipating the misgivings of an English readership , he celebrates a double fluency in Scots and English , observing that Scots are ...
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Scotlands Geography 17071918 | 12 |
Languages in Scotland 17071918 | 21 |
The International Reception and Literary Impact of Scottish Literature | 33 |
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