Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of Place: Imagining a Scottish Republic

Scott Lyall

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2006

Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of Place

Imagining a Scottish Republic

Scott Lyall

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748630059

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Gives unique focus to the politics of one of modern Scotland's major cultural figures

By examining at length for the first time those places in Scotland that inspired MacDiarmid to produce his best poetry, Scott Lyall shows how the poet's politics evolved from his interaction with the nation, exploring how MacDiarmid discovered a hidden tradition of radical Scottish Republicanism through which he sought to imagine a new Scottish future. Adapting postcolonial theory, this book allows readers a fuller understanding not only of MacDiarmid's poetry and politics, but also of international modernism, and the social history of Scottish modernism

Key Features

The first full length study to focus on MacDiarmid's politics
Reveals, for the first time outside of government files from the National Archives, that MacDiarmid was watched by the Security Services from 1931 to 1943
Draws uniquely on Carcanet's multi-volume MacDiarmid 2000 series
The first critical book to use the 'Red Scotland' typescript in the National Library of Scotland and have access to the recently rediscovered poems collected as The Revolutionary Art of the Future (2003)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iv
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Abbreviations of Works by Hugh MacDiarmid Publicly Available Download PDF	x
A Note on the Text Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Map Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction: Imagining a Scottish Republic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 ‘Towards a New Scotland’: Selfhood, History and the Scottish Renaissance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2 Debatable Land Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
3 ‘A Disgrace to the Community’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
4 At the Edge of the World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
5 ‘Ootward Boond Frae Scotland’: MacDiarmid, Modernism and the Masses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: August 28, 2006
ISBN: 9780748630059