Devolving English Literature - Brossura

Crawford, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 074861429X ISBN 13: 9780748614295

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

This widely-praised book looks at the rise and fall of 'Britishness' in literature over the last three centuries. Arguing that for much of its history the subject of 'English Literature' has been bound up with an assumed English cultural centre, Devolving English Literature examines the literary construction and questioning of a British (rather than simply English) literary identity. Surveying eighteenth and nineteenth-century writers, including Robert Burns, James Boswell, Walter Scott and Thomas Carlyle, Robert Crawford remaps literary history. He argues that Scottish and non-metropolitan authors left a crucial legacy to American literature, to the developing subject of anthropology, and to twentieth-century Modernism. In the work of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Hugh MacDiarmid and other Modernists there persist vitally 'provincial' as well as national elements. These continue to nourish the verse of sophisticated post-British 'barbarian' poets such as Seamus Heaney, Tony Harrison, D

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Robert Crawford is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St Andrews

Product Description:

Book by Crawford Robert

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 074861429X
• ISBN 13: 9780748614295
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 355