The Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh

by Berthold Schoene

The subcultural enfant terrible of devolutionary protest and rebellion, Irvine Welsh is now widely acknowledged as the founding father of a whole new tradition in post-devolution Scottish writing. The unprecedented worldwide success of Trainspotting, magnified by Danny Boyle's iconic film adaptation, revolutionised Scottish culture and radically remoulded the country's self-image from dreamy romantic hinterland to agitated metropolitan hotbed. Although...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748639179
• ISBN13: 9780748639175
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher