What made the twentieth-century interwar literary renaissance unique among Scottish cultural movements was the belief of those involved that any regeneration of the nation's artistic culture could t be separated from revival in its social, ecomic and political life. An additional priority was engagement with Europe and with the artistic and intellectual ideas of the modern period. Nationalism, internationalism and modernity were therefore seen as complementary and interactive parts of an ambitious national renewal project. Modernism and Nationalism: Literature and Society in Scotland 1918-1939 is an edited collection of primary sources from this challenging period. Through excerpts from periodical articles, book chapters, letters and other documents, it brings us the voices of writers such as MacDiarmid, Gunn, Linklater, Compton Mackenzie, Naomi Mitchison, the Muirs, Carswells and many others, reviewing and arguing over the literary, social, ecomic and political issues of their time, both at home and abroad, while in the process offering new insights into the ideas behind their own creative writing. The book makes an important contribution to our understanding of interwar Scotland.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Association for Scottish Literary Studies
ISBN-10
0948877588
ISBN-13
9780948877582
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104576712
Product Key Features
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Glasgow
Edited by
Margery Mcculloch
Series Title
Asls Annual Volumes
Content Note
Illustrations
Author Biography
Dr Margery Palmer McCulloch is Research Fellow in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. She has written widely on twentieth-century Scottish literature, her previous books including critical studies of Neil M. Gunn and Edwin Muir.