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Edinburgh companion to Scottish romanticism /

Bringing together an international group of experts, this companion explores a distinctly Scottish Romanticism. Discussing the most influential texts and authors in depth, the original essays shed new critical light on texts from Macpherson's Ossian poetry to Hogg's Confessions of a Justif...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
Colección:Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; INTRODUCTION What is Scottish Romanticism?; SECTION I The Scottish Public Sphere: Themes, Groups and Identities; CHAPTER ONE Ballads and Chapbooks; CHAPTER TWO Romantic Macpherson; CHAPTER THREE Scottish Song, Lyric Poetry and the Romantic Composer; CHAPTER FOUR Gaelic Literature and Scottish Romanticism; CHAPTER FIVE Travel Writing and the Picturesque; CHAPTER SIX Urban Space and Enlightened Romanticism; CHAPTER SEVEN Periodicals and Public Culture; CHAPTER EIGHT The Scottish National Tale; CHAPTER NINE Religion and Scottish Romanticism.
  • SECTION II Authors and TextsCHAPTER TEN Robert Burns and Romanticism in Britain and Ireland; CHAPTER ELEVEN Walter Scott's Romanticism: A Theory of Performance; CHAPTER TWELVE Byron; CHAPTER THIRTEEN John Galt's Fictional and Performative Worlds; CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner; CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Function of Linguistic Variety in Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.