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  • 1820: Scottish Rebellion

    Essays on a Nineteenth-Century Insurrection

    Modifié par Gerard Carruthers, Kevin Thomas Gallagher, Craig Lamont, George Smith ...
    The 1820 Scottish Rising has been increasingly studied in recent decades. This collection of essays looks especially at local players on the ground across multiple regional centres in the west of Scotland, as well as the wider political circumstances within government and civil society that provide the rising's context. It examines insurrectionist preparation by radicals, the progress of the ... En savoir plus

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  • 1820: Scottish Rebellion

    Essays on a Nineteenth-Century Insurrection

    Modifié par Gerard Carruthers, Kevin Thomas Gallagher, Craig Lamont, George Smith ...
    The 1820 Scottish Rising has been increasingly studied in recent decades. This collection of essays looks especially at local players on the ground across multiple regional centres in the west of Scotland, as well as the wider political circumstances within government and civil society that provide the rising’s context. It examines insurrectionist preparation by radicals, the progress of the ... En savoir plus

    $74.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Burns: Poems

    Edited by Gerard Carruthers

    par Robert Burns ...
    Collections series Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series
    This volume collects the most essential of the immortal poems and songs of Scotland's beloved national bard. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.With the publication of his first book of poems in 1786, Robert Burns—the twenty-seven-year-old son of a farmer—became a national celebrity, hailed as the "Ploughman Poet." When he died ten years later, ten thousand people came to pay their respects at his ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns

    Modifié par Gerard Carruthers ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national 'bard'. Robert Burns (1759-96) was a producer of lyrical verse, satirical poetry, in English and Scots, a song-writer and song-collector, a writer of bawdry, journals, commonplace books and correspondence. Sculpting his own image, his untutored rusticity was a sincere persona as much as ... En savoir plus

    $144.99 CAD

  • Alexander Wilson

    Enlightened Naturalist

    par Edward H. Burtt Jr., Gerard Carruthers, Frank Gill, Irving N. Rothman, Rick Wright, John Kricher, William E. Davis, Jr. ...
    Collections series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    When talking about the Enlightenment, ornithology is seldom the first topic of conversation. Still, Enlightenment and ornithology converge in one important respect, that of abundance. In our time, new-wave ornithologists have renewed their faith in eighteenth-century expectations for the discovery of a gigantic number of bird species. It is at this intersection between abundant modern science and ... En savoir plus

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature

    Modifié par Gerard Carruthers, Liam McIlvanney ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Scotland's rich literary tradition is a product of its unique culture and landscape, as well as of its long history of inclusion and resistance to the United Kingdom. Scottish literature includes masterpieces in three languages - English, Scots and Gaelic - and global perspectives from the diaspora of Scots all over the world. This Companion offers a unique introduction, guide and reference work ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $43.99 CAD Maintenant $31.99 CAD

  • Literature and Union

    Scottish Texts, British Contexts

    Modifié par Gerard Carruthers, Colin Kidd ...
    Literature and Union opens up a new front in interdisciplinary literary studies. There has been a great deal of academic work--both in the Scottish context and more broadly--on the relationship between literature and nationhood, yet almost none on the relationship between literature and unions. This volume introduces the insights of the new British history into mainstream Scottish literary ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

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  • Making British Culture

    English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740–1830

    par David Allan ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship – including the hard-edged intellectual achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson ... En savoir plus

    $97.55 CAD

  • Scotland's Books

    The Penguin History of Scottish Literature

    par Robert Crawford ...
    From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature.In Scotland's Books poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish writing and its relationship to the country's history. Stretching ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Robert Burns in Global Culture

    par Murray Pittock, Leith Davis, Dominique Delmaire, R D. S. Jack, Nigel Leask, Pauline Anne Mackay, Clark McGinn, Silvia Mergenthal, Andrew Monnickendam, Alan Rawes, Frauke Reitemeier, Christopher A. Whatley, Robert Crawford ...
    Robert Burns has been a key figure in Scottish identity globally since his death in 1796. But he has always been much more than that. In America, his admirers have included Emerson, President Lincoln, Maya Angelou and many others, for Burns was long held to be a friend to the American way of life, an opponent of kings and tyranny, and someone who proved that the values that built the United States ... En savoir plus

    $136.99 CAD

  • Scott-land

    The Man Who Invented a Nation

    par Stuart Kelly ...
    His name and image are everywhere - from Bank of Scotland fivers to the bizarre monument in Edinburgh's city centre. Scott-land presumes that the reader will have only a hazy awareness of Sir Walter Scott, and, although Stuart Kelly will offer insights into Scott's works and biography, this is emphatically not a conventional literary biography, nor is it a critical study. Partly a surreptitious ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Samuel Johnson, the Ossian Fraud, and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland

    par Thomas M. Curley ...
    James Macpherson's famous hoax, publishing his own poems as the writings of the ancient Scots bard Ossian in the 1760s, remains fascinating to scholars as the most successful literary fraud in history. This study presents the fullest investigation of his deception to date, by looking at the controversy from the point of view of Samuel Johnson. Johnson's dispute with Macpherson was an argument with ... En savoir plus

    $55.99 CAD