Scottish Modernism and Its Contexts 1918-1959: Literature, National Identity and Cultural Exchange

by Margery Palmer McCulloch

This innovative book proposes the expansion of the existing idea of an interwar Scottish Renaissance movement to include its international significance as a Scottish literary modernism interacting with the intellectual and artistic ideas of European modernism as well as responding to the challenges of the Scottish cultural and political context.Topics range from the revitalisation of the Scots vernacular as an avant-garde literary language in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748634746
• ISBN13: 9780748634743
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher