Empires and Revolutions: Cunninghame Graham and his Contemporaries (Occasional Papers) - Softcover

 
9781908980250: Empires and Revolutions: Cunninghame Graham and his Contemporaries (Occasional Papers)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1908980257 ISBN 13: 9781908980250
Publisher: Scottish Literature International, 2017

Synopsis

The European age of empires launched a process of capitalist globalisation that continues to the present day. It is also inextricably linked with the spread of revolutionary discourses (in terms of race, nation or social class): the quest for emancipation, political independence, and economic equality. R. B. Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936), in both his life and his oeuvre, most effectively represents the complex interaction between imperial and revolutionary discourses in this dramatic period. Throughout his life he was an outspoken critic of injustice and inequality, and his appreciation of the demands and customs of diverse territories and contrasting cultures were hallmarks of his life, his political ideas, and his writing. These essays explore the expression of these ideas in the works of Cunninghame Graham and of other Scottish writers of the period.

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About the Authors

Carla Sassi is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Verona. Her publications include Why Scottish Literature Matters (2005); as co-author, Caribbean-Scottish Relations (2007) and Within and without Empire: Scotland across the (Post)colonial Borderline (2013); as editor, The International Companion to Scottish Poetry (2016).

Silke Stroh is based at the English Department of Münster University, Germany. Author of Uneasy Subjects: Postcolonialism and Scottish Gaelic Poetry (2011) and Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination: Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900 (2017), her other research areas include modern anglophone Scottish literature, diaspora studies and transnationalism.

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Publisher
Scottish Literature International
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1908980257
ISBN 13 
9781908980250
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
192
Editor
Sassi Carla, Stroh Silke