Scottish Literature and World War I / / David A. Rennie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Rennie, David A.,
• MitwirkendeR: Black, Ronald,; Craig, Cairns,; Crawford, Robert,; Goldie, David,; Houston, Fiona,; Lucas, John,; Lumsden, Alison,; Lyall, Scott,; McLennan, Neil,; Pedersen, Sarah,; Rennie, David A.,; Riach, Alan,; Stevenson, Randall,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

Explores the connections between Scottish writing and World War IIncludes studies united by an innovative methodological approach to Scottish World War I writingContends that the war’s effect on Scotland and Scottish letters was more multifaceted and far-ranging than prior assessments have allowed forAddresses work by some of Scotland’s most popular and influential writers, such as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, John Buchan, Nan Shepherd, Neil Gunn, Charles Hamilton Sorley, and Hugh MacDiarmidThis book highlights the variety of literary, social, political and philosophical reverberations of the war in Scotland’s writing. Part one of the collection presents multi-text case studies of nationalism, Scottish Great War prose, popular literature, women’s letters to the editor, Gaelic writing and philosophy. Part two contains essays devoted to individual authors, including canonical figures such as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Nan Shepherd, Neil Gunn and John Buchan, as well as peripheral authors such as George A. C. Mackinlay, Charles Murray and Ewart Alan Mackintosh.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: ‘A reflection of the contrasts’: Scottish Literature and World War I -- Part I: Multi-text Case Studies -- 1. Scottish Literature, Nationalism and the First World War -- 2. ‘It Takes All Sorts to Make a Type’: Scottish Great War Prose -- 3. Unquiet on the Home Front: Scottish Popular Fiction and the Truth of War -- 4. ‘One Who Has Sacrificed’: The Use of ‘High Diction’ in Women’s Correspondence to Scottish Newspapers during the First World War -- 5. Gaelic Verse -- 6. Gaelic Prose -- 7. Scottish Philosophy and the First World War -- Part II: Individual Authors -- 8. What Next?: Nan Shepherd and the First World War -- 9. Pagan Modernism: First World War and Spiritual Revival in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song and Neil M. Gunn’s Highland River -- 10. A Bounded Heaven: George A. C. Mackinlay and Great War Pastoral -- 11. Pastoral as Propaganda in John Buchan’s Wartime Writing -- 12. Charles Murray and A Sough o’ War -- 13. ‘But Change, Nothing Abides’: Sunset Song and the Nature of Change -- 14. Ewart Alan Mackintosh in Memoriam: Leadership, Patriotism and Posthumous Commemoration -- Further Reading -- Index