Scotland and the 19th-century world / / edited by Gerard Carruthers, David Goldie and Alastair Renfrew.

• Superior document: Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; vol. 18
• TeilnehmendeR: Carruthers, Gerard.; Goldie, David.; Renfrew, Alaistair.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 18.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

The nineteenth century is often read as a time of retreat and diffusion in Scottish literature under the overwhelming influence of British identity. Scotland and the 19th-Century World presents Scottish literature as altogether more dynamic, with narratives of Scottish identity working beyond the me...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction / Gerard Carruthers , David Goldie and Alastair Renfrew
• Preparing for Renaissance: Revaluing Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature / Douglas Gifford
• Scotland, the USA, and National Literatures in the Nineteenth Century / Andrew Hook
• Reviewing America: Francis Jeffrey, The Edinburgh Review and the United States / Pam Perkins
• Alliance and Defiance in Scottish and American Outlaw-Hero Ballads / Suzanne Gilbert
• Lateral Literary Biography: Robert Fergusson, Herman Melville and “Bartleby” / Susan Manning
• The Military Kailyard: The Iconography of the Nineteenth-Century Soldier / Trevor Royle
• “The Key to their Hearts”: Scottish Orientalism / Michael Fry
• Exporting the Covenant: Scottish Missionary Tales and Africa, c.1870–c.1920 / Richard Finlay
• From Slogan to Clan: Three Fragments from the Evolving Scottish/Germanic Literary Relations of the Romantic Period. / Johnny Rodger
• Nietzsche in Glasgow: Alexander Tille, John Davidson and Edwin Muir / Ritchie Robertson
• “The great affair is to move”: Stevenson’s Journeys / Kenneth Simpson
• The Enchanted Worlds of Scott, Scotland, and the Grimms / Sarah Dunnigan
• Index.