The Language of the People: Scots Prose from the Victorian Revival - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0080377319 ISBN 13: 9780080377315

Publisher: Mercat Press, 2002

Synopsis

Historians of Scots language and literature have claimed 'that the vernacular prose tradition died out during the early seventeenth century'. This book presents evidence to the contrary. The Scots language, in its spoken forms which continued to be the language of the people, of the great majority of the Lowland nation, requiring simply the appropriate technical means before it blossomed in a rich variety of speech-based prose form. It surveys the period from 1855 to 1914 and the Great War.

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About the Author

William Donaldson is a Scottish social historian and piper. Two of his earlier books, The Jacobite Song and Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland, received a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and the Thomas Blackwell Memorial Prize.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mercat Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0080377319
• ISBN 13: 9780080377315
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Donaldson William