The Fin-De-Siecle Scottish Revival by Michael Shaw
Explores cultural defence and revivalism in Scottish literature and art The first book-length, interdisciplinary study on fin-de-siècle ScotlandUnlocks Scottish writers’ and artists’ participation in neo-paganism, the occult revival, neo-Catholicism and japonismeInformed by extensive analysis of under-explored archival materials, such as the Papers of Patrick GeddesRichly illustrated with artworks, photographs and ephemera As the Irish Revival took shape and the Home Rule debate dominated UK politics, what was happening in Scotland? This book reveals distinct but comparable concerns with cultural defence and revivalism in fin-de-siècle Scotland, evident in the work of a number of writers and artists including Robert Louis Stevenson, Patrick Geddes, Fiona Macleod, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Mona Caird, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Duncan and various contributors to The Evergreen. Situating Scottish literature and art alongside international developments in culture, especially the rise of decadence, symbolism and Celticism, Michael Shaw demonstrates the ways in which dissident fin-de-siècle styles and ideas supported and defined the Scottish Revival.-
Suffragist Artists in Partnership
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The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature
- Walter Pater
- Spirit Becomes Matter
- William Morris and the Idea of Community
- Jane Morris
- Moving Images
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Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature
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New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832 1860
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Determined Spirits
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The Victorian Actress in the Novel and on the Stage
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Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature
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The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry
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Rudyard Kipling's Fiction
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London's Underground Spaces
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Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Victorian Auto/Biography
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Olive Schreiner and the Politics of Print Culture, 1883-1920
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Gender, Technology and the New Woman
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Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry
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Italian Politics and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
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Novel Institutions
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Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literary London
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The Victorian Male Body
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The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism
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Blasted Literature
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Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century
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Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status
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The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry
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In Lady Audley's Shadow
A ground-breaking piece of scholarship [..] Shaw’s book is a treasure trove of fascinating information about the concerns and international influences which animated the cultural scene in late nineteenth century Scotland. -- Graeme Purves * Bella Caledonia *
This book will undoubtedly be an important and useful resource for those researching and teaching Scottish literature and culture. Beyond Scottish Studies, it offers a new way to approach commonly taught and researched Scottish authors, and an opportunity for instructors to expand beyond these canonical figures -- Sarah Sharp, University of Aberdeen * English Studies *
This book will undoubtedly be an important and useful resource for those researching and teaching Scottish literature and culture. Beyond Scottish Studies, it offers a new way to approach commonly taught and researched Scottish authors, and an opportunity for instructors to expand beyond these canonical figures. -- Sarah Sharp, University of Aberdeen * English Studies *
In this fascinating study, Shaw provides a major re-evaluation of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Scottish literature and culture. This book should be essential reading for scholars interested in the fin-de-siècle literature and for scholars in Scottish studies more broadly. * Kirstie Blair, University of Strathclyde *
Shaw’s monograph ranges much further than Geddes and is full of insights on the complicated cultural intersections of the 1890s. But it is the figure of Geddes, with his hugely diverse range of preoccupations and projects, his inconsistencies and conflicts, that best embodies the ambitions and challenges of Shaw’s wider study. It is unsurprising that one impetus behind this book is the late Douglas Gifford’s call to explore further relationships between fin-de-siècle Scotland and its links to the Scottish Renaissance. Shaw responds magnificently to this demand to read Scotland in the 1890s in terms of broader interrogations of modernity and civilisation across Europe. -- Glenda Norquay, Liverpool John Moores University * Scottish Literary Review *
This book will undoubtedly be an important and useful resource for those researching and teaching Scottish literature and culture. Beyond Scottish Studies, it offers a new way to approach commonly taught and researched Scottish authors, and an opportunity for instructors to expand beyond these canonical figures -- Sarah Sharp, University of Aberdeen * English Studies *
This book will undoubtedly be an important and useful resource for those researching and teaching Scottish literature and culture. Beyond Scottish Studies, it offers a new way to approach commonly taught and researched Scottish authors, and an opportunity for instructors to expand beyond these canonical figures. -- Sarah Sharp, University of Aberdeen * English Studies *
In this fascinating study, Shaw provides a major re-evaluation of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Scottish literature and culture. This book should be essential reading for scholars interested in the fin-de-siècle literature and for scholars in Scottish studies more broadly. * Kirstie Blair, University of Strathclyde *
Shaw’s monograph ranges much further than Geddes and is full of insights on the complicated cultural intersections of the 1890s. But it is the figure of Geddes, with his hugely diverse range of preoccupations and projects, his inconsistencies and conflicts, that best embodies the ambitions and challenges of Shaw’s wider study. It is unsurprising that one impetus behind this book is the late Douglas Gifford’s call to explore further relationships between fin-de-siècle Scotland and its links to the Scottish Renaissance. Shaw responds magnificently to this demand to read Scotland in the 1890s in terms of broader interrogations of modernity and civilisation across Europe. -- Glenda Norquay, Liverpool John Moores University * Scottish Literary Review *
Michael Shaw is Lecturer in Scottish Literature at the University of Stirling, having previously held posts at the Universities of Kent, Glasgow and Strathclyde. He is editor of A Friendship in Letters: Robert Louis Stevenson & J. M. Barrie (forthcoming from Sandstone Press).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781474433952 |
| ISBN 10 | 1474433952 |
| Title | The Fin-De-Siecle Scottish Revival |
| Author | Michael Shaw |
| Series | Edinburgh Critical Studies In Victorian Culture |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2019-11-19 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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