Scottish Literature and World War I

Herausgeber: Rennie, David A

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'The 600,000 men who fought in Scottish regiments or in the Navy and Air Force during the Great War fought for Scotland, to them a palpable space of affect and meaning. This important book of essays breaks new ground in capturing the ways that the Great War reconfigured the boundaries between Scottish and British culture.' Jay Winter, Yale University Explores the connections between Scottish writing and World War I This book highlights the variety of literary, social, political and philosophical reverberations of the war in Scottish writing. Part one of the collection presents multi-text case studies of areas such as Scottish Great War prose, popular literature, women's letters to the editor, Gaelic writing and philosophy. Part two contains essays devoted to individual authors, including canonical figures such as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Nan Shepherd, Neil Gunn and John Buchan, as well as peripheral authors such as A. C. Mackinlay, Charles Murray and Ewart Alan Mackintosh. David A. Rennie an Honorary Research Associate of the Centre for the Novel, University of Aberdeen. Cover image: Stonehaven War Memorial © Casey Rennie Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-5459-9 Barcode

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781474454599
• ISBN-10: 1474454593
• Artikelnr.: 59915299

Autorenporträt

David A. Rennie gained a PhD in American World War I literature from Aberdeen University in 2017. He is the author of American Writers and World War I (2020) and essays in The Hemingway Review and The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'A reflection of the contrasts': Scottish Literature and World War I, David A. Rennie
Part One: Multi-text Case Studies
1. Scottish Literature, Nationalism and the First World War, Alan Riach
2. 'It Takes All Sorts to Make a Type': Scottish Great War Prose, David A. Rennie
3. Unquiet on the Home Front: Scottish Popular Fiction and the Truth of War, David Goldie
4. 'One Who Has Sacrificed': The Use of 'High Diction' in Women's Correspondence to Scottish Newspapers during the First World War, Sarah Pedersen
5. Gaelic Verse, Ronald Black
6. Gaelic Prose, Ronald Black
7. Scottish Philosophy and the First World War, Cairns Craig
Part Two: Individual Authors
8. What Next?: Nan Shepherd and the First World War, Alison Lumsden
9. Pagan Modernism: First World War and Spiritual Revival in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song and Neil M. Gunn's Highland, River, Scott Lyall
10. A Bounded Heaven: George A.C. Mackinlay and Great War Pastoral, Randall Stevenson
11. Pastoral as Propaganda in John Buchan's Wartime Writing, Fiona Houston
12. Charles Murray and A Sough o' War, Robert Crawford
13. 'But Change, Nothing Abides': Sunset Song and the Nature of Change, John Lucas
14. Ewart Alan Mackintosh in Memoriam: Leadership, Patriotism, and Posthumous Commemoration, Neil McLennan
Bibliography
Index.