A History of Scottish Women's Writing / / Douglas Gifford, Dorothy McMillan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Gifford, Douglas,; McMillan, Dorothy,
• MitwirkendeR: Alexander, Flora,; Anderson, Carol,; Bateman, Meg,; Black, Fiona,; Bold, Valentina,; Brown, Mary Ellen,; Burgess, Moira,; Burness, Catriona,; Butter, Peter,; Calder, Jenni,; Carruthers, Gerard,; Chapman, Deirdre,; Christianson, Aileen,; Crawford, Robert,; Dickson, Beth,; Dunnigan, Sarah M.,; Elphinstone, Margaret,; Frater, Anne C.,; Gifford, Douglas,; Gilroy, Amanda,; Hagemann, Susanne,; Hart, Francis Russell,; Hart, Lorena Laing,; Jessop, Ralph,; McCue, Kirsteen,; McCulloch, Margery Palmer,; McDonald, Jan,; McMillan, Dorothy,; Murray, Isabel,; Norquay, Glenda,; Petrie, Elaine,; Poggi, Valentina,; Riddell, Aileen M.,; Scullion, Adrienne,; Stirling, Kirsten,; Varty, Anne,; Waterston, Elizabeth,; Watson, Roderick,; Whyte, Christopher,; Williams, Merryn,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (752 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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