The Literature of Scotland (The History of Literature) - Softcover

Watson, Roderick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333269241 ISBN 13: 9780333269244

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1984

Synopsis

Critics hailed The Literature of Scotland as one of the most comprehensive and fascinatingly readable accounts of Scottish life and literature. This revised edition now has two volumes, one focused on Medieval to Victorian times and a second that examines the writing of the twentieth century--arguably, the richest ever period in Scottish literary history. From the early ballads and the oral tradition to the achievement of Burns, Scott and Carlyle, and trom The House with the Green Shutters to Trainspotting and far beyond, this set provides a critical and historical context to the modern upsurge of writing in English, Scots, and Gaelic.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Critics hailed the first edition of The Literature of Scotland as one of the most comprehensive and fascinatingly readable accounts of Scottish literature in all three of the country's languages - Gaelic, Scots and English. In this extensively revised and expanded new edition, Roderick Watson traces the lives and works of Scottish writers in a beautiful and rugged country that has been divided by political and religious conflict but united, too, by a democratic and egalitarian ideal of nationhood.

The Literature of Scotland: The Twentieth Century provides a comprehensive account of the richest ever period in Scottish literary history. From The House with the Green Shutters to Trainspotting and far beyond, this companion volume to The Literature of Scotland: The Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century gives a critical and historical context to the upsurge of writing in the languages of Scotland. Roderick Watson covers a wide range of modern and contemporary Scottish authors including: MacDiarmid, MacLean, Grassic Gibbon, Gunn, Robert Garioch, Iain Crichton Smith, Alasdair Gray, Edwin Morgan, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, A. L. Kennedy, Liz Lochhead, John Burnside, Jackie Kay, Kathleen Jamie and many, many more!

Also featuring an extended list of Further Reading and a helpful chronological timeline, this is an indispensable introduction to the great variety of Scottish writing which has emerged since the start of the twentieth century.

About the Author

RODERICK WATSON is Professor of English at the University of Stirling, UK, and Director of the Stirling Centre for Scottish Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333269241
• ISBN 13: 9780333269244
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 491