Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography: The Masks of the Modern Nation

by Alan Riach

Book Overview

This fascinating new study is about cultural change and continuities. At the core of the book are discrete literary studies of Scotland and Shakespeare, Walter Scott, R.L. Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, the modern Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and more recent cultural and literary phenomena. The central theme of literature and popular 'representation' recontextualises literary analysis in a broader, multi-faceted picture involving all the arts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349523275
• ISBN13: 9781349523276
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"