Kirkyard Romanticism : Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century Hardback
by Sarah Sharp
Part of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism series
Hardback
Description
The early nineteenth century saw the dead take on new life in Scottish literature; sometimes quite literally.
This book brings together a range of Scottish Romantic texts, identifying a shared interest an imagined national dead.
It argues that the publications of Edinburgh-based publisher William Blackwood were the crucible for this new form of Scottish cultural nationalism.
Scottish Romantic authors including James Hogg, John Wilson and John Galt, use the Romantic kirkyard to engage with, and often challenge, contemporary ideas of modernity.
The book also explores the extensive ripples that this cultural moment generated across Scottish, British and wider Anglophone literary sphere over the next century.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:30/09/2024
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- ISBN:9781474483414
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Pre-Order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:30/09/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781474483414
