The Edinburgh history of Scottish literature. Vol. 2, Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707-1918) / period editor, Susan Manning ; general editor, Ian Brown ; co-editors, Thomas Owen Clancy, Murray Pittock.

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Between 1707 and 1918, Scotland underwent arguably the most dramatic upheavals in its political, economic and social history. The Union with England, industrialisation and Scotland's subsequent defining contributions throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the culture of Britain and Empire are reflected in the transformative energies of Scottish literature and literary institutions in the period. New genres, new concerns and whole new areas of interest opened under the creative scrutiny of sceptical minds. This second volume of the History reveals the major contribution made by Scottish writers and Scottish writing to the shape of modernity in Britain, Europe and the world. The other volumes in the History are: The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, Volume 1: From Columba to the Union (until 1707) The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, Volume 3: Modern Transformations: New Identities (from 1918) Key Features Original - presents new approaches to what is literature and what is Scottishness. Inclusive - Gaelic and diasporic writing, Latin writing, theological writing, legal writing, and context chapters. Comprehensive - provides the fullest coverage of Scottish literature ever and the first survey for almost 20 years. Distinguished contributors from many countries.

COVER; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Scotland as North Britain: The Historical Background, 1707-1918; 2 A Nation Transformed: Scotland's Geography, 1707-1918; 3 Standards and Differences: Languages in Scotland, 1707-1918; 4 The International Reception and Literary Impact of Scottish Literature of the Period 1707-1918; 5 Post-Union Scotland and the Scottish Idiom of Britishness; 7 Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment; 8 Ramsay, Fergusson, Thomson, Davidson and Urban Poetry; 9 The Ossianic Revival, James Beattie and Primitivism; 10 Scottish-Irish Connections, 1707-1918

11 Scottish Song and the Jacobite Cause12 Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair and the New Gaelic Poetry; 13 Orality and Public Poetry; 14 Varieties of Public Performance: Folk Songs, Ballads, Popular Drama and Sermons; 15 Historiography, Biography and Identity; 16 Scotland's Literature of Empire and Emigration, 1707-1918; 17 Tobias Smollett; 18 Writing Scotland: Robert Burns; 19 Lord Byron; 20 Walter Scott; 21 Law Books, 1707-1918; 22 Periodicals, Encyclopaedias and Nineteenth-Century Literary Production; 23 Hogg, Galt, Scott and their Milieu

24 The Scottish Book Trade at Home and Abroad, 1707-191825 The National Drama, Joanna Baillie and the National Theatre; 26 The Literature of Industrialisation; 27 The Carlyles and Victorianism; 28 Gaelic Literature in the Nineteenth Century; 29 Nineteenth-Century Scottish Thought; 30 Travel Writing, 1707-1918; 31 'Half a trade and half an art': Adult and Juvenile Fiction in the Victorian Period; 32 Nineteenth-Century Scottish Poetry; 33 The Press, Newspaper Fiction and Literary Journalism, 1707-1918; 34 The Kailyard: Problem or Illusion?; 35 Robert Louis Stevenson; 36 J. M. Barrie

37 Patrick Geddes and the Celtic Revival38 The Collectors: John Francis Campbell and Alexander Carmichael; 39 Gaelic Literature and the Diaspora; 40 The Literature of Religious Revival and Disruption; Notes on Contributors -- Volume Two; Index

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