Modern Scottish Culture - Brossura

Gardiner, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0748620273 ISBN 13: 9780748620272

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2005

Riassunto

An overview of Scottish culture from the time of union with England and Wales up to and through the moment of devolution to the present.A wide-ranging introduction to Scottish culture, this book examines the central place of Scottish cultural studies within British cultural studies, describing the changing relationship of Scotland and the union as a whole. Scotland has a disproportionately high production of British output in many fields - technological, colonial, political, artistic and literary - and this book shows how Scotland, long used to the differences between nation and government, is leading the constitutional changes which are accompanying the break-up of the British union today. It condenses much of the pioneering research done on Scottish Studies over the last couple of decades, as well as introducing new research which helps link the field and make sense of this rapidly changing nation. Each chapter introduces an aspect of modern Scottish culture, including film, religion, sport, cultu

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Michael Gardiner is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0748620273
• ISBN 13: 9780748620272
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192