A History of Scottish Women's Writing / / Douglas Gifford, Dorothy McMillan.
This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©1997 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (752 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: A History of Scottish Women's Writing -- 1. The Gaelic Tradition up to 1750 -- 2. Scottish Women Writers c.l560-c.l650 -- 3. Old Singing Women and the Canons of Scottish Balladry and Song -- 4. Women and Song 1750-1850 -- 5. Selves and Others: Non~fiction Writing in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries -- 6. Bums's Sister -- 7. 'Kept some steps behind him': Women in Scotland 1780-1920 -- 8. Some Early Travellers -- 9. From Here to Alterity: The Geography of Femininity in the Poetry of Joanna Baillie -- 10. Some Women of the Nineteenth~century Scottish Theatre: Joanna Baillie, Frances Wright and Helen MacGregor -- 11. The Other Great Unknowns: Women Fiction Writers of the Early Nineteenth Century -- 12. Rediscovering Scottish Women's Fiction in the Nineteenth Century -- 13. Elizabeth Grant -- 14. Viragos of the Periodical Press: Constance Gordon,Cumming, Charlotte Dempster, Margaret Oliphant, Christian Isobel Johnstone -- 15. Jane Welsh Carlyle's Private Writing Career -- 16. Beyond 'The Empire of the Gentle Heart': Scottish Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century -- 17. What a Voice! Women, Repertoire and Loss in the Singing Tradition -- 18. Margaret Oliphant -- 19. Caught Between Worlds: The Fiction of Jane and Mary Findlater -- 20. Scottish Women Writers Abroad: The Canadian Experience -- 21. Women and Nation -- 22. Annie S. Swan and 0. Douglas: Legacies of the Kailyard -- 23. Tales of Her Own Countries: Violet Jacob -- 24. Fictions of Development 1920-1970 -- 25. Marion Angus and the Boundaries of Self -- 26. Catherine Carswell: Open the Door! -- 27. Willa Muir: Crossing the Genres -- 28. 'To know Being': Substance and Spirit in the Work of Nan Shepherd -- 29. Twentieth,century Poetry 1: Rachel Annand Taylor to Veronica Forrest, Thomson -- 30. More Than Merely Ourselves: Naomi Mitchison -- 31. The Modem Historical Tradition -- 32. Jane Duncan: The Homecoming of Imagination -- 33. Jessie Kesson -- 34. Scottish Women Dramatists Since 1945 -- 35. The Remarkable Fictions of Muriel Spark -- 36. Vision and Space in Elspeth Davie's Fiction -- 37. Designer Kailyard -- 38. Twentieth,century Poetry II: The Last Twenty,five Years -- 39. Contemporary Fiction 1: Tradition and Continuity -- 40. Contemporary Fiction II: Seven Writers in Scotland -- 41. Contemporary Fiction III: The Anglo,Scots -- 42. The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead -- 43. Women's Writing in Scottish Gaelic Since 1750 -- Select Bibliographies of Scottish Women Writers -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
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Summary: | This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780748672660 9783110780475 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780748672660 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Douglas Gifford, Dorothy McMillan. |