Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Av Glenda Norquay, Liverpool John Moores University) Norquay, Glenda (Professor of Scottish Literary Studies

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Explores women’s writing in Scotland across a range of periods and genresFrom early modern to contemporary writing, these 15 essays examine women’s engagement with different areas of literary production and discuss the implications of their literary output for our wider understanding of Scottish literature. The contributors consider the ways in which women writers worked with ‘feminine’ arenas such as spirituality, oral culture, domestic fiction and the ‘private’ writing of letters and diaries, as well as with the traditionally ‘masculine’ areas of Enlightenment culture and the periodical press. They offer insights into women’s role within Gaelic culture, women’s negotiations of space, place and national identities and their appropriations of specific forms, such as supernatural, detective and historical fiction. They also provide analysis of writing by Margaret Oliphant, Janet Hamilton, Marion Angus, Catherine Carswell, Naomi Mitchison, Dorothy Dunnett, Denise Mina, A.L. Kennedy, Ali Smith, Liz Lochhead and Kathleen Jamie amongst others. Glenda Norquay is Professor of Scottish Literary Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. Her books include Robert Louis Stevenson and Theories of Reading and the edited collection Across the Margins (with Gerry Smyth).

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Utgivningsdatum2012-06-20
Mått156 x 234 x 12 mm
Vikt336 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature
Antal sidor256
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9780748644315

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Glenda Norquay is Professor of Scottish Literary Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. Her books include a monograph on Robert Louis Stevenson and Theories of Reading, the edited collection Across the Margins (with Gerry Smyth), and a number of essays and articles on Scottish women writers and on Stevenson. She edited The Collected Works of Lorna Moon, and two collections of women’s suffrage fiction and is currently editing St Ives for the New Edinburgh Edition of Stevenson.

Acknowledgements; Series Editors’ Preface; Introduction, Glenda Norquay; 1. Spirituality, Sarah Dunnigan; 2. Gaelic Poetry and Song, Anne Frater and Michel Byrne; 3. Orality and the Ballad Tradition, Suzanne Gilbert; 4. Enlightenment Culture, Pam Perkins; 5. Domestic Fiction, Ainsley McIntosh; 6. Janet Hamilton: Working-class Memoirist and Commentator, Florence Boos; 7. Private Writing, Aileen Christianson; 8. Margaret Oliphant and the Periodical Press, Helen Sutherland; 9. Writing the Supernatural, Kirsty A. Macdonald; 10. Interwar Literature, Margery Palmer McCulloch; 11. Writing Spaces, Carol Anderson; 12. Experiment and Nation in the 1960s, Eleanor Bell; 13. Genre Fiction, Glenda Norquay; 14. Twentieth Century Poetry, Rhona Brown; 15. Contemporary Fiction, Monica Germanà; Endnotes; Further reading; Notes on Contributors.