The International Companion to the Scottish Novel

Are novelists from Scotland, even internationally influential ones like Walter Scott or Muriel Spark, merely contributors to a wider English literature, or is there a separate and specific tradition of the Scottish novel that gives meaning and significance to their work? This INTERNATIONAL COMPANION assesses the work of Scottish novelists - writing in English, Scots and Gaelic - as contributions to national self-understanding and to a distinctive evolution of the most influential genre of the modern world. Tracing the development of the Scottish novel from the eighteenth century to the present day, and ranging from self-conscious experimentation to popular, mass-market fiction, it evaluates responses by critics, and critical responses by the novelists themselves, to reveal a sustained engagement with national identity and literary form.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Cairns Craig (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Scottish Literature International
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 27.08.2025
• EAN: 9781908980434
• ISBN: 978-1-908980-43-4
• Seiten: 376
• Abmessung: 156 mm x 234 mm x 21 mm
• Gewicht: 570 g
• Serie: International Companions to Scottish Literature
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft