A history of Scottish women's writing / edited by Douglas Gifford, Dorothy McMillan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gifford, Douglas, Author.

Contributor:

Gifford, Douglas, 1940-

McMillan, Dorothy, 1943- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Scottish authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

Scottish literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Scottish literature.

Scottish Gaelic literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Scottish Gaelic literature.

Women--Scotland--Intellectual life.

Women.

Women and literature--Scotland.

Women and literature.

Scotland--In literature.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 716 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1997.

Summary:

This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: A History of Scottish Women's Writing

1. The Gaelic Tradition up to 1750

2. Scottish Women Writers c.l560-c.l650

3. Old Singing Women and the Canons of Scottish Balladry and Song

4. Women and Song 1750-1850

5. Selves and Others: Non~fiction Writing in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

6. Bums's Sister

7. 'Kept some steps behind him': Women in Scotland 1780-1920

8. Some Early Travellers

9. From Here to Alterity: The Geography of Femininity in the Poetry of Joanna Baillie

10. Some Women of the Nineteenth~century Scottish Theatre: Joanna Baillie, Frances Wright and Helen MacGregor

11. The Other Great Unknowns: Women Fiction Writers of the Early Nineteenth Century

12. Rediscovering Scottish Women's Fiction in the Nineteenth Century

13. Elizabeth Grant

14. Viragos of the Periodical Press: Constance Gordon,Cumming, Charlotte Dempster, Margaret Oliphant, Christian Isobel Johnstone

15. Jane Welsh Carlyle's Private Writing Career

16. Beyond 'The Empire of the Gentle Heart': Scottish Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century

17. What a Voice! Women, Repertoire and Loss in the Singing Tradition

18. Margaret Oliphant

19. Caught Between Worlds: The Fiction of Jane and Mary Findlater

20. Scottish Women Writers Abroad: The Canadian Experience

21. Women and Nation

22. Annie S. Swan and 0. Douglas: Legacies of the Kailyard

23. Tales of Her Own Countries: Violet Jacob

24. Fictions of Development 1920-1970

25. Marion Angus and the Boundaries of Self

26. Catherine Carswell: Open the Door!

27. Willa Muir: Crossing the Genres

28. 'To know Being': Substance and Spirit in the Work of Nan Shepherd

29. Twentieth,century Poetry 1: Rachel Annand Taylor to Veronica Forrest, Thomson

30. More Than Merely Ourselves: Naomi Mitchison

31. The Modem Historical Tradition

32. Jane Duncan: The Homecoming of Imagination

33. Jessie Kesson

34. Scottish Women Dramatists Since 1945

35. The Remarkable Fictions of Muriel Spark

36. Vision and Space in Elspeth Davie's Fiction

37. Designer Kailyard

38. Twentieth,century Poetry II: The Last Twenty,five Years

39. Contemporary Fiction 1: Tradition and Continuity

40. Contemporary Fiction II: Seven Writers in Scotland

41. Contemporary Fiction III: The Anglo,Scots

42. The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead

43. Women's Writing in Scottish Gaelic Since 1750

Select Bibliographies of Scottish Women Writers

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Oct 2020).

Includes bibliographical references (pages [677]-707) and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-7266-4

OCLC:

1306540386