TY - BOOK AU - Gifford,Douglas AU - Alexander,Flora AU - Anderson,Carol AU - Bateman,Meg AU - Black,Fiona AU - Bold,Valentina AU - Brown,Mary Ellen AU - Burgess,Moira AU - Burness,Catriona AU - Butter,Peter AU - Calder,Jenni AU - Carruthers,Gerard AU - Chapman,Deirdre AU - Christianson,Aileen AU - Crawford,Robert AU - Dickson,Beth AU - Dunnigan,Sarah M. AU - Elphinstone,Margaret AU - Frater,Anne C. AU - Gifford,Douglas AU - Gilroy,Amanda AU - Hagemann,Susanne AU - Hart,Francis Russell AU - Hart,Lorena Laing AU - Jessop,Ralph AU - McCue,Kirsteen AU - McCulloch,Margery Palmer AU - McDonald,Jan AU - McMillan,Dorothy AU - Murray,Isabel AU - Norquay,Glenda AU - Petrie,Elaine AU - Poggi,Valentina AU - Riddell,Aileen M. AU - Scullion,Adrienne AU - Stirling,Kirsten AU - Varty,Anne AU - Waterston,Elizabeth AU - Watson,Roderick AU - Whyte,Christopher AU - Williams,Merryn TI - A History of Scottish Women's Writing SN - 9780748609161 U1 - 820.9/9287/09411 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: A History of Scottish Women's Writing --; 1. The Gaelic Tradition up to 1750 --; 2. Scottish Women Writers c.l560-c.l650 --; 3. Old Singing Women and the Canons of Scottish Balladry and Song --; 4. Women and Song 1750-1850 --; 5. Selves and Others: Non~fiction Writing in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries --; 6. Bums's Sister --; 7. 'Kept some steps behind him': Women in Scotland 1780-1920 --; 8. Some Early Travellers --; 9. From Here to Alterity: The Geography of Femininity in the Poetry of Joanna Baillie --; 10. Some Women of the Nineteenth~century Scottish Theatre: Joanna Baillie, Frances Wright and Helen MacGregor --; 11. The Other Great Unknowns: Women Fiction Writers of the Early Nineteenth Century --; 12. Rediscovering Scottish Women's Fiction in the Nineteenth Century --; 13. Elizabeth Grant --; 14. Viragos of the Periodical Press: Constance Gordon,Cumming, Charlotte Dempster, Margaret Oliphant, Christian Isobel Johnstone --; 15. Jane Welsh Carlyle's Private Writing Career --; 16. Beyond 'The Empire of the Gentle Heart': Scottish Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century --; 17. What a Voice! Women, Repertoire and Loss in the Singing Tradition --; 18. Margaret Oliphant --; 19. Caught Between Worlds: The Fiction of Jane and Mary Findlater --; 20. Scottish Women Writers Abroad: The Canadian Experience --; 21. Women and Nation --; 22. Annie S. Swan and 0. Douglas: Legacies of the Kailyard --; 23. Tales of Her Own Countries: Violet Jacob --; 24. Fictions of Development 1920-1970 --; 25. Marion Angus and the Boundaries of Self --; 26. Catherine Carswell: Open the Door! --; 27. Willa Muir: Crossing the Genres --; 28. 'To know Being': Substance and Spirit in the Work of Nan Shepherd --; 29. Twentieth,century Poetry 1: Rachel Annand Taylor to Veronica Forrest, Thomson --; 30. More Than Merely Ourselves: Naomi Mitchison --; 31. The Modem Historical Tradition --; 32. Jane Duncan: The Homecoming of Imagination --; 33. Jessie Kesson --; 34. Scottish Women Dramatists Since 1945 --; 35. The Remarkable Fictions of Muriel Spark --; 36. Vision and Space in Elspeth Davie's Fiction --; 37. Designer Kailyard --; 38. Twentieth,century Poetry II: The Last Twenty,five Years --; 39. Contemporary Fiction 1: Tradition and Continuity --; 40. Contemporary Fiction II: Seven Writers in Scotland --; 41. Contemporary Fiction III: The Anglo,Scots --; 42. The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead --; 43. Women's Writing in Scottish Gaelic Since 1750 --; Select Bibliographies of Scottish Women Writers --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748672660 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748672660 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748672660/original ER -