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The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing /

Norquay, Glenda

The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing / Glenda Norquay. - 1 online resource (240 p.) - Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature : ECSL .

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Spirituality -- 2 Gaelic Poetry and Song -- 3 Orality and the Ballad Tradition -- 4 Enlightenment Culture -- 5 Domestic Fiction -- 6 Janet Hamilton: Working-class Memoirist and Commentator -- 7 Private Writing -- 8 Margaret Oliphant and the Periodical Press -- 9 Writing the Supernatural -- 10 Interwar Literature -- 11 Writing Spaces -- 12 Experiment and Nation in the 1960s -- 13 Genre Fiction -- 14 Twentieth-Century Poetry -- 15 Contemporary Fiction -- Endnotes -- Further Reading -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Recognises the richness of women's contribution to Scottish literatureBy 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 studiesIncludes an authoritative introduction and a guide to further reading


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780748644322 9780748644452

10.1515/9780748644452 doi

2012451176


English literature--Scottish authors--History and criticism.
Scottish literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Scottish literature--Women authors.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

PR8533 / .E35 2012

820.9928709411