The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing

Glenda Norquay

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2012

The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing

Glenda Norquay

In the series Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748644452

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About this book

Recognises the richness of women's contribution to Scottish literature

By 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 in Gaelic culture, women's relationship to oral traditions and to key literary periods, women's engagements with nationalism, with space, with genre fiction and with the activity of reading.

Key features

Includes innovative scholarship from leading critics of gender and Scottish Studies, including Sarah Dunnigan (Edinburgh), Carol Anderson (Open University), Pam Perkins (Manitoba), Florence Boos (Iowa)
Responds to current developments in the field of feminist and literary studies
Includes an authoritative introduction and a guide to further reading

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Series Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Glenda Norquay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Spirituality Sarah M. Dunnigan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2 Gaelic Poetry and Song Anne Frater and Michel Byrne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
3 Orality and the Ballad Tradition Suzanne Gilbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
4 Enlightenment Culture Pam Perkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
5 Domestic Fiction Ainsley Mcintosh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
6 Janet Hamilton: Working-class Memoirist and Commentator Florence S. Boos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
7 Private Writing Aileen Christianson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
8 Margaret Oliphant and the Periodical Press Helen Sutherland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
9 Writing the Supernatural Kirsty A. Macdonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
10 Interwar Literature Margery Palmer Mcculloch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
11 Writing Spaces Carol Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
12 Experiment and Nation in the 1960s Eleanor Bell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
13 Genre Fiction Glenda Norquay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
14 Twentieth-Century Poetry Rhona Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
15 Contemporary Fiction Monica Germanà Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Endnotes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Further Reading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201

(Deutsch)

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

eBook

Published: June 20, 2012
ISBN: 9780748644452