Scottish Literature and World War I

David A. Rennie

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

Scottish Literature and World War I

David A. Rennie

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474454612

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Explores the connections between Scottish writing and World War I

Includes studies united by an innovative methodological approach to Scottish World War I writing
Contends that the war’s effect on Scotland and Scottish letters was more multifaceted and far-ranging than prior assessments have allowed for
Addresses work by some of Scotland’s most popular and influential writers, such as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, John Buchan, Nan Shepherd, Neil Gunn, Charles Hamilton Sorley, and Hugh MacDiarmid

This book highlights the variety of literary, social, political and philosophical reverberations of the war in Scotland’s writing. Part one of the collection presents multi-text case studies of nationalism, Scottish Great War prose, popular literature, women’s letters to the editor, Gaelic writing and philosophy. Part two contains essays devoted to individual authors, including canonical figures such as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Nan Shepherd, Neil Gunn and John Buchan, as well as peripheral authors such as George A. C. Mackinlay, Charles Murray and Ewart Alan Mackintosh.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Introduction: ‘A reflection of the contrasts’: Scottish Literature and World War I David A. Rennie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Multi-text Case Studies
1. Scottish Literature, Nationalism and the First World War Alan Riach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. ‘It Takes All Sorts to Make a Type’: Scottish Great War Prose David A. Rennie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
3. Unquiet on the Home Front: Scottish Popular Fiction and the Truth of War David Goldie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
4. ‘One Who Has Sacrificed’: The Use of ‘High Diction’ in Women’s Correspondence to Scottish Newspapers during the First World War Sarah Pedersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
5. Gaelic Verse Ronald Black Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
6. Gaelic Prose Ronald Black Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
7. Scottish Philosophy and the First World War Cairns Craig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Part II: Individual Authors
8. What Next?: Nan Shepherd and the First World War Alison Lumsden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
9. Pagan Modernism: First World War and Spiritual Revival in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song and Neil M. Gunn’s Highland River Scott Lyall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
10. A Bounded Heaven: George A. C. Mackinlay and Great War Pastoral Randall Stevenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
11. Pastoral as Propaganda in John Buchan’s Wartime Writing Fiona Houston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
12. Charles Murray and A Sough o’ War Robert Crawford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
13. ‘But Change, Nothing Abides’: Sunset Song and the Nature of Change John Lucas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
14. Ewart Alan Mackintosh in Memoriam: Leadership, Patriotism and Posthumous Commemoration Neil McLennan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
Further Reading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 312
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474454612