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The Edinburgh companion to Scottish women's writing / edited by Glenda Norquay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norquay, Glenda, Author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scottish literature--Women authors.
- Scottish literature.
- English literature--Scottish authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Explores the richness of women's contribution to Scottish literatureBy combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped literary output and addresses the changing situations in which women lived and wrote. It places the work of established writers such as Margaret Oliphant, Naomi Mitchison and A.L. Kennedy in new contexts and discusses the writing of critically neglected figures such as Sìleas na Ceapaich, Mary Queen of Scots, Anne Grant, Janet Hamilton, Isabella Bird, F. Marion McNeill and Denise Mina. There are chapters on women
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Spirituality; CHAPTER TWO Gaelic Poetry and Song; CHAPTER THREE Orality and the Ballad Tradition; CHAPTER FOUR Enlightenment Culture; CHAPTER FIVE Domestic Fiction; CHAPTER SIX Janet Hamilton: Working-class Memoirist and Commentator; CHAPTER SEVEN Private Writing; CHAPTER EIGHT Margaret Oliphant and the Periodical Press; CHAPTER NINE Writing the Supernatural; CHAPTER TEN Interwar Literature; CHAPTER ELEVEN Writing Spaces; CHAPTER TWELVE Experiment and Nation in the 1960s
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Genre FictionCHAPTER FOURTEEN Twentieth-Century Poetry; CHAPTER FIFTEEN Contemporary Fiction; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613795519
- 9781782683117
- 1782683119
- 9781282000407
- 1282000403
- 9780748644452
- 0748644458
- OCLC:
- 801193210
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