Devolving English literature / Robert Crawford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, Robert, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature.

Scottish literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Scottish literature.

American literature--Scottish influences.

American literature.

English literature--Scottish influences.

Literature and anthropology.

Intellectual life.

Scotland--Intellectual life.

Scotland.

Modernism (Literature).

Canon (Literature).

Physical Description:

viii, 355 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2000.

Summary:

"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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

074861429X

OCLC:

45608160