Cairns Craig

The Wealth of the Nation

Scotland, Culture and Independence

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Produktbeschreibung

The Wealth of the Nation' explores how Scotland has continued to assert its distinctive cultural difference despite the three-hundred-year union with England and the modern forces of globalisation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9781474435581
• ISBN-10: 1474435580
• Artikelnr.: 49662273

Autorenporträt

Cairns Craig is Director of the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. His books include Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry (1982), Out of History (1996), The Modern Scottish Novel (1999), Associationism and the Literary Imagination (2007). He was general editor of the four-volume History of Scottish Literature (1987-9) and has been on the editorial boards of Cencrastus, Radical Scotland, Edinburgh Review and the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Wealth of the Nation
1. Cultural Capital and the Xeniteian Empire
2. In the Race of History
3. Living Memory: Nostalgia, Necromancy and Nostophobia
4. Theoxenia: Invitations to the Gods
Conclusion: Unsettled Will