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Devolving English Literature examines the literary construction and questioning of a British (rather than simply English) literary identity. Surveying eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers, including Robert Burns, James Boswell, Walter Scott, and Thomas Carlyle, Robert Crawford argues that Scottish and nonmetropolitan authors left a crucial legacy to American literature, anthropology, and twentieth-century Modernism. In the work of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and other Modernists there persist vitally "provincial" as well as national elements. This second edition contains a…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Devolving English Literature examines the literary construction and questioning of a British (rather than simply English) literary identity. Surveying eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers, including Robert Burns, James Boswell, Walter Scott, and Thomas Carlyle, Robert Crawford argues that Scottish and nonmetropolitan authors left a crucial legacy to American literature, anthropology, and twentieth-century Modernism. In the work of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and other Modernists there persist vitally "provincial" as well as national elements. This second edition contains a substantial new chapter, "Waving Citizens," which looks particularly at Scottish writing in the light of the political events that saw the establishment of a national Parliament in Edinburgh in 1999. Topics considered range from Walter Scott and European union to Trainspotting and right-wing politics.
Autorenporträt
Robert Crawford's seven collections of poetry include A Scottish Assembly (1990) and Full Volume (2008). His biography of Robert Burns, The Bard (2009) won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award, His other books include Scotland's Books (2007) and On Glasgow and Edinburgh (2013). Professor of Modern Scottish Literature and Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews, he is writing a biography of T. S. Eliot.