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Great Britain was formed by the union of the Scottish and English parliaments, and this event provided a new beginning for Scotland and Scottish literature. This study offers a critical interpretation of Scottish literature as well as an introduction to Scottish culture. It covers the Scottish enlightenment and the world of Adam Smith and David Hume, and the "Scottish Renaissance" associated with Hugh MacDiarmid. Developments in the contemporary literary scene include John McGrath's Scottish 7:84 Theatre Company, the poetry of Sorley MacLean, Iain Crichton Smith, Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Tom Leonard, and the fiction of Alasdair Gray, James Kelman and Iain Banks. Particular attention is paid to the work of Scottish women writers from Jane Elliott and Joanna Baille to Margaret Oliphant and Janice Galloway.
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"The book has a clearly defined and readily understood structure....The net effect of this clean-cut overview of almost three hundred years is provocative and challenging....As an intelligent, highly personal reading of Scottish literature since 1707, it gives immense pleasure." - Scottish Literary Journal
"Walker's approach to Scottish literature offers useful insights and comments....In his introductory sections he provides some intriguing perspectives on the character of Scotland and its literature....the book contains humorous but valuable insights such as the following on Burn's "Tam O'Shanter": "The throw-away ending is pure ironic bathos: the reader is teasingly enjoined to repudiate the pleasures of the tavern, illicit adventure and a glimpse of a girl who can make the Devil wriggle." Walker's style provides for many "quotable" phrases from the volume." - World Literature Today
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- PublisherLongman
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0582028930
- ISBN 13 9780582028937
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages464
- EditorWalker Prof Marshall
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