Imagined Worlds - Fiction by Scottish Women 1900-1935

This is a study of fiction by Scottish women spanning the late 1890s to the early 1930s. Seven authors are included: Violet Jacob, Mary and Jane Helen Findlater, Lorna Moon, Catherine Carswell, Willa Muir, and Nan Shepherd. It identifies a continuity of development within and between the women's careers. Each evolved from writing narratives expected of fiction aimed at the women's market to more innovative forms which increasingly questioned traditional values. From this perspective we can locate the authors in an intriguing relation to the contexts of Scottish literature, modernist sensibility, and to the feminism asserting itself in that age of upheaval.

List of contents

Contents: Fiction by Scottish women - Inventing tradition - Romantic irony - Novels for the new age - Heroines without heroes - Modernism and Scotland - From sentimental and domestic fiction to innovation and feminism.

About the author

The Author: Alan Freeman teaches literature in English at Yeditepe University in Istanbul. He has taught at the University of Edinburgh and Napier University in his native Scotland, and has written on various aspects of modern Scottish literature.

Report

«On the whole, then, students of Scottish literature will feel grateful to Freeman for fostering the re-introduction of writers like the Findlaters into the Scottish literary canon, or rather, for suggesting, in line with other scholars interested in Scottish women writers, ways in which this canon can be redefined so as to make their inclusion not only possible but necessary. It is therefore to be hoped that Freeman's 'Imagined Worlds' will stimulate more detailed investigations into the fictional worlds of Jacob, the Findlaters, Carswell, Moon, Muir, and Shepherd.» (Silvia Mergenthal, Anglia, Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie)

Product details

• Authors: Alan Freeman
• Assisted by: Horst W. Drescher (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2005
• EAN: 9783631530573
• ISBN: 978-3-631-53057-3
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 13 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: Scottish Studies International - Publications of the Scottish Studies Centre; Scottish Studies International - Publications of the Scottish Studies Centre, Johannes Gutenberg-Uni; Scottish Studies International - Publications of the Scottish Studies Centre; Scottish Studies International; Scottish Studies International - Publications of the Scottish Studies Centre, Johannes Gutenberg-Uni
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics