Scottish Literature

by Gerard Carruthers

Book Overview

This guide combines detailed literary history with discussion of contemporary debates about Scottishness. The book considers the rise of Scottish Studies, the development of a national literature, and issues of cultural nationalism. Beginning in the medieval period during a time of nation building, the book goes on to focus on the 'Scots revival' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before moving on to discuss the literary renaissance of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074863309X
• ISBN13: 9780748633098
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"