Scottish Literature and World War I /

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

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 f...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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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

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