Taking Liberties - Scottish Literature and Expressions of Freedom

The notion of "freedom" has long been associated with a number of perceptions deemed fundamental to an understanding of Scotland and the Scots. Thus Scottish history is viewed, resistance to the Roman Empire, to the Wars of Independence against England, to the eighteenth-century Jacobite uprisings, to the birth of the Labour and Trade Union movements. Key Scottish texts have the concept of liberty at their core: the Declaration of Arbroath, Barbour's Brus, Blind Hary's Wallace, the poems of Robert Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid and the novels of Janice Galloway and Irvine Welsh. Scottish thinkers have written extensively on the philosophies of freedom, be it individual, economic, or religious. These essays examine the question of "freedom", its representations and its interpretations within the literatures of Scotland.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ruben Jarazo Alvarez (Editor), Ian Brown (Editor), David Clark (Editor), David M. Clark (Editor), Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez (Editor)
• Publisher: Scottish Literature International
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2016
• EAN: 9781908980212
• ISBN: 978-1-908980-21-2
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 331 g
• Series: Occasional Papers; Occasional Papers
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies