Scottish literature since 1707 / Marshall Walker.

Author/creator Walker, Marshall author.
Format Book
PublicationLondon : Longman, 1996.
Descriptionxvi, 443 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesLongman literature in English series
Longman literature in English series. ^A227682
Contents Terms of reference: patriotism and change ; Scottish identity and tradition -- Union and enlightenment -- Satire, sentiment and Scots -- Robert Burns: the myth and the gift -- Sir Walter Scott and the supreme fiction -- Calvin's Scottish devil, the end of rural sleep and practical Christianity -- Didacts and doomsters: nineteenth-century prophecy, fantasy and nightmare -- Robert Louis Stevenson and the war in the members -- Tragedy, epic and entertainment: early twentieth-century fiction --"Whaur's yer Wullie Shakespeare?": the return of Scottish drama -- Poets of the Scottish renaissance from Hugh MacDiarmid to Edwin Morgan --Post-war fiction: realism, violence and magic.
General noteAuthor is Professor of English at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, N.Z.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 383-436) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Walker, Marshall. Scottish literature since 1707. London ; New York : Longman, ©1996
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN0582028922 (pbk.)
ISBN9780582028920 (pbk.)
ISBN0582028930 (hbk.)
ISBN9780582028937 (hbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks PR8514 .W35 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold