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Scottish literature and World War I / edited by David A. Rennie.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- English literature--Scottish authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Scottish authors.
- Scottish literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Scottish literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 304 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- This text highlights the variety of literary, social, political and philosophical reverberations of the war in Scotland writing.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: ‘A reflection of the contrasts’: Scottish Literature and World War I
- Part I: Multi-text Case Studies
- 1. Scottish Literature, Nationalism and the First World War
- 2. ‘It Takes All Sorts to Make a Type’: Scottish Great War Prose
- 3. Unquiet on the Home Front: Scottish Popular Fiction and the Truth of War
- 4. ‘One Who Has Sacrificed’: The Use of ‘High Diction’ in Women’s Correspondence to Scottish Newspapers during the First World War
- 5. Gaelic Verse
- 6. Gaelic Prose
- 7. Scottish Philosophy and the First World War
- Part II: Individual Authors
- 8. What Next?: Nan Shepherd and the First World War
- 9. Pagan Modernism: First World War and Spiritual Revival in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song and Neil M. Gunn’s Highland River
- 10. A Bounded Heaven: George A. C. Mackinlay and Great War Pastoral
- 11. Pastoral as Propaganda in John Buchan’s Wartime Writing
- 12. Charles Murray and A Sough o’ War
- 13. ‘But Change, Nothing Abides’: Sunset Song and the Nature of Change
- 14. Ewart Alan Mackintosh in Memoriam: Leadership, Patriotism and Posthumous Commemoration
- Further Reading
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 26, 2021).
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-9594-X
- 1-4744-5461-5
- OCLC:
- 1312725767
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