The International Companion to the Scottish Novel

Name: The International Companion to the Scottish Novel
SKU: 9781908980434
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Series (if any):

International Companions to Scottish Literature

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

370 pages

Publisher:

ASLS

ISBN-13:

9781908980434

EAN:

9781908980434

Classifications:

Literature: history and criticism

Weight (g):

698

Dimensions (mm):

233 x 155 x 22

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

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Description

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.