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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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
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.