Format:
1 Online-Ressource (217 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-0-7486-4445-2
,
0-7486-4445-8
,
0-7486-4432-6
,
978-0-7486-4432-2
,
978-0-7486-4431-5
,
978-0-7486-6479-5
Series Statement:
Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Spirituality - Sarah M. Dunnigan -- - Gaelic poetry and song - Anne Frater and Michel Byrne -- - Orality and the ballad tradition - Suzanne Gilbert -- - Enlightenment culture - Pam Perkins -- - Domenestic fiction - Ainsley McIntosh -- - Janet Hamilton: working-class memoirist and commentator - Florence S. Boos -- - Private writing - Aileen Christianson -- - Margaret Oliphant and the periodical press - Helen Sutherland -- - Writing the supernatural - Kirsty A. Macdonald -- - Interwar literature - Margery Palmer McCulloch -- - Writing spaces - Carol Anderson -- - Experiment and nation in the 1960s - Eleanor Bell -- - Genre fiction - Glenda Norquay -- - Twentieth-century poetry - Rhona Brown -- - Contemporary fiction - Monica Germanà. - Explores the richness of women's contribution to Scottish literature. By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped literary output and addresses the changing situations in which women lived and wrote. It places the work of established writers such as Margaret Oliphant, Naomi Mitchison and A.L. Kennedy in new contexts and discusses the writing of critically neglected figures such as Sl︡eas na Ceapaich, Mary Queen of Scots, Anne Grant, Janet Hamilton, Isabella Bird, F. Marion McNeill and Denise Mina. There are chapters on women in Gaelic culture, women's relationship to oral traditions and to key literary periods, women's engagements with nationalism, with space, with genre fiction and with the activity of reading
Language:
English
Keywords:
Frauenliteratur
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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