The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707) by Ian Brown
The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. New scholarship is brought to bear, not only on imaginative literature, but also law, politics, theology and philosophy, all placed in the context of the evolution of Scotland's geography, history, languages and material cultures from our earliest times up to 1707.
..a rich, diverse, surprising account of literary scolarship. * Scottish Studies Review *
This exciting new history unites scholarship and imagination, cutting across narrow divisions of period and language and adopting multiple perspectives to bring out as never before the varieties of Scots, Gaelic and Latin writing. -- David Norbrook, Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
This exciting new history unites scholarship and imagination, cutting across narrow divisions of period and language and adopting multiple perspectives to bring out as never before the varieties of Scots, Gaelic and Latin writing. -- David Norbrook, Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
Ian Brown is Emeritus Professor in Drama at Kingston University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Scottish Literature at Glasgow University. He is the General Editor of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature (EUP: 2007) and widely published on aspects of theatre and literature. He is also a playwright and poet. Thomas Clancy is Lecturer in the Department of Celtic at the University of Glasgow. The late Susan Manning was Grierson Professor of English Literature, and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Murray Pittock MAE FRSE is Bradley Professor and Pro Vice-Principal at the University of Glasgow, and Scotland’s leading cultural historian. A prizewinner of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy, he has held visiting appointments or spoken at the universities of UC Berkeley, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, UCL, New York University, Notre Dame, Oslo, Oxford, the Sorbonne, Virginia, Yale, Gresham College, the British Academy, The British Museum, Hampton Court, the Smithsonian, the House of Commons and many other locations. He is the General Editor of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780748616152 |
| ISBN 10 | 0748616152 |
| Title | The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707) |
| Author | Ian Brown |
| Series | Edinburgh History Of Scottish Literature |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2006-11-13 |
| Number of pages | 344 |
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