Scottish Modernism and its Contexts 1918-1959: Literature, National Identity and Cultural Exchange

Margery Palmer McCulloch

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2009

Scottish Modernism and its Contexts 1918-1959

Literature, National Identity and Cultural Exchange

Margery Palmer McCulloch

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748634750

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About this book

This innovative book proposes the expansion of the existing idea of an interwar Scottish Renaissance movement to include its international significance as a Scottish literary modernism interacting with the intellectual and artistic ideas of European modernism as well as responding to the challenges of the Scottish cultural and political context.

Topics range from the revitalisation of the Scots vernacular as an avant-garde literary language in the 1920s and the interaction of literature and politics in the 1930s to the fictional re-imagining of the Highlands, the response of women writers to a changing modern world and the manifestations of a late modernism in the 1940s and 1950s. Writers featured include Hugh MacDiarmid, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Neil M. Gunn, Edwin and Willa Muir, Catherine Carswell, Sydney Goodsir Smith and Sorley MacLean.

Key Features

The first study of a Scottish modernism extending in its impact to the 1950s and drawing on influences from British and European modernism
Original perspectives on the literature of the period through discussion of a range of writers and writing genres
Detailed consideration of the work of women writers in the context of modernism and in their response to social change
A contribution to the expansion of the idea of modernism in its focus both on the modernist artist's role in social and national renewal and on writing from the peripheries of small town, rural and island cultures in contrast to metropolitan culture

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Introduction: Modernism and Scottish Modernism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Transforming Traditions
Chapter 1 Towards a Scottish Modernism: C. M. Grieve, Little Magazines and the Movement for Renewal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Chapter 2 Hugh MacDiarmid and Modernist Poetry in Scots Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 3 Criticism and New Writing in English Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter 4 Beyond this Limit: Women, Modernism and the Modern World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
Part II Ideology and Literature
Chapter 5 Whither Scotland? Politics and Society between the Wars Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter 6 Neil M. Gunn: Re-imagining the Highlands Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Chapter 7 Modernism and Littérature Engagée: A Scots Quair and City Fiction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Chapter 8 Poetry and Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Part III World War Two and its Aftermath
Chapter 9 Visionaries and Revisionaries: Late Muir and MacDiarmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter 10 Continuities and New Voices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Bibliography of Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: May 15, 2009
ISBN: 9780748634750