Contemporary Scottish women writers / edited by Aileen Christianson and Alison Lumsden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christianson, Aileen, Author.

Contributor:

Christianson, Aileen, editor.

Lumsden, Alison, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

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

Scottish literature.

Women and literature--Scotland--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Scottish literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Women--Scotland--Intellectual life.

Women.

Scotland--In literature.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 186 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.

Summary:

This collection of essays, by both new and established critics, provides stimulating readings of many of the Scottish women writers working in Scots and English today. A variety of critical approaches ensures diversity in these essays on fiction, poetry and drama. While in the growing field of Scottish women's writing it is impossible to be all encompassing, these essays cover a wide range from the most established, Muriel Spark, to newer writers such as Laura Hird. It includes new readings of Janice Galloway and A. L. Kennedy and examines the work of poets such as Carol Ann Duffy and Kate Clanchy, dramatists such as Sharman Macdonald and Sue Glover as well as writers, including Jackie Kay, who cross genre boundaries. Exploring the interface between gender and nation as well as the excitement and energy generated by much of this writing, these essays fill a gap in critical response to contemporary Scottish women writers.Contributors to this volume include: Carol Anderson, Barbara Bell, Helen Boden, Sarah M. Dunnigan, Ksenija Horvat, Margery Palmer McCulloch, Glenda Norquay, Lynne Stark, Susan Triesman.Key FeaturesThe first book to present a range of critical responses to contemporary Scottish women writersContemporary - both in terms of the subject matter and the critical/theoretical approachesLooks at a range of genres (fiction, poetry, drama)

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One: Contemporary Scottish Women Poets and Playwrights

Chapter One Chapter Two Scottish Women's Poetry 1972-1999:

Chapter Two. Kathleen Jamie's Semiotic of Scotlands

Chapter Three. Liz Lochhead's Poetry and Drama: Forging Ironies

Chapter Four. Sharman Macdonald: The Generation of Identity

Chapter Five. Sue Glover, Rona Munro, Lara Jane Bunting: Echoes and Open Spaces

Chapter Six. Jackie Kay's Poetry and Prose: Constructing Identity

Part Two. Contemporary Scottish Women's Prose Fiction

Chapter Seven. Muriel Spark and Candia McWilliam: Continuities

Chapter Eight. Agnes Owens's Fiction: Untold Stories

Chapter Nine. Emma Tennant, Elspeth Barker, Alice Thompson: Gothic Revisited

Chapter Ten. Janice Galloway's Novels: Fraudulent Mooching

Chapter Eleven. A. L. Kennedy's Longer Fiction: Articulate Grace

Chapter Twelve. Scottish Women's Short Stories: 'Repositories of Life Swiftly Apprehended

Selective Bibliography of Writing by Other Contemporary Scottish Women Writers

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [170]-179) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474465717

1474465714