The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature - Three-Volume Set

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 Volume Two of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature is a massive contribution to today's new, post-Devolution, Scottish story. For the first time Scotland and its literary culture, in the post-Union period, are seen in the widest of socio-political, economic, and intellectual contexts. This extraordinarily comprehensive volume defines Scottish literature in terms wide enough to be acceptable to the eighteenth-century literati themselves, while replacing the narrow cultural nationalism of many past accounts with a new sense of internationalism. -- Andrew Hook, Emeritus Bradley Professor of English Literature, University of Glasgow Monumental yet accessible, comprehensive in its scholarly range but full of unexpected delights, a mirror of a fast-changing society and its culture, the third volume of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature represents a new level of knowledge and consciousness about Scotland's literature in all its facets and multiple identities. -- Michael Lynch, Professor Emeritus in Scottish History, former Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography, University of Edinburgh ...an extremely important and substantial work...sets an influential benchmark about the current state of thinking about Scottish Literature. Scotland on Sunday The Edinburgh History claims an unprecendented inclusiveness in what counts as 'Scottish Literature', embracing in its hundred-odd chapters not only literary, biographical, philosophical, legal, historical and juvenile writing in English, Scots, gaelic and Latin, but also an extended discussion of the shards of Old English, Norse, Latin, Gaelic, Welsh and Irish that can be used to forge a literary prehistory for the period from Columba to Bannockburn... serves to open up new avenues for future literary research. 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. Volume Two of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature is a massive contribution to today's new, post-Devolution, Scottish story. For the first time Scotland and its literary culture, in the post-Union period, are seen in the widest of socio-political, economic, and intellectual contexts. This extraordinarily comprehensive volume defines Scottish literature in terms wide enough to be acceptable to the eighteenth-century literati themselves, while replacing the narrow cultural nationalism of many past accounts with a new sense of internationalism. Monumental yet accessible, comprehensive in its scholarly range but full of unexpected delights, a mirror of a fast-changing society and its culture, the third volume of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature represents a new level of knowledge and consciousness about Scotland's literature in all its facets and multiple identities. ...an extremely important and substantial work...sets an influential benchmark about the current state of thinking about Scottish Literature. The Edinburgh History claims an unprecendented inclusiveness in what counts as 'Scottish Literature', embracing in its hundred-odd chapters not only literary, biographical, philosophical, legal, historical and juvenile writing in English, Scots, gaelic and Latin, but also an extended discussion of the shards of Old English, Norse, Latin, Gaelic, Welsh and Irish that can be used to forge a literary prehistory for the period from Columba to Bannockburn... serves to open up new avenues for future literary research.