The Complete Scottish Sketches of R.B. Cunninghame Graham: 'A Careless Enchantment' - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1399533096 ISBN 13: 9781399533096

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Cunninghame Graham was a famous and hugely influential figure in late 19th and early 20th century Scottish politics and literature. He published 34 books during his lifetime, equally divided between histories (mostly of South America), and anthologies of his impressionistic sketches of South America, Morocco, and Scotland, the large majority of which had been published previously in literary magazines between 1896 and 1933. For the first time, the editors have compiled his entire Scottish oeuvre chronologically, into one volume, and set them in their historical and social contexts, which explores and contextualises the works themselves, and traces Graham's development as a much-admired literary artist and social documentarist. One of the editors is a Cunninghame Graham family member, and the family historian, who has provided insights and peculiar details, unavailable to previous biographers, which hopefully provides added depth and understanding to Graham's works.

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About the Authors

Lachlan Munro is an Independent Scholar and Freelance Historian. Born and brought up in Stirlingshire, he holds first class honours degrees in History and Politics, and a PhD in History from the University of Glasgow. He was previously a Research Fellow at The National Library of Scotland. His publications include: R. B. Cunninghame Graham and Scotland: Party, Prose, and Political Aesthetic, (EUP, 2022) which was shortlisted for the Saltire Society ‘History Book of the Year’ 2022, The Scenery of Dreams: The True Story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’, (The Deveron Press, 2018), An Eagle In A Hen-House: Selected Political Speeches and Writings of R. B. Cunninghame Graham, (The Deveron Press, 2017).

W.R.B. (Robin) Cunninghame Graham is a great-grandnephew of the author and, as head of the family, holds the Barony of Gartmore. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (Scotland) and a member of the Scottish History Society, he has spent over 40 years researching and demythologising the family's history and genealogy. He has previously taught in Further and Higher education, published in a TESOL journal, edited translations of books written by Hispanic American authors and currently divides his time between selling fine wines and teaching English.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1399533096
• ISBN 13: 9781399533096
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Munro Lachlan, Cunninghame Graham W.R.B