Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-316-51826-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 479 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Walter Scott's tales of chivalry and adventure inaugurated a masculinized Scottish romance tradition that celebrated a sublime and heroic version of Scotland. Nineteenth-century Scotswomen responded to Scott's influence by establishing a counter-tradition of unromantic or even anti-romantic representations of Scotland. Their novels challenged the long-standing claim that Scotland lacked any equivalent to the English realist novel. In turning from the past to the present and from the sublimity of Scott's Highland landscapes to farmhouses, factories, and suburban villas, Scottish women writers brought romance to everyday life, illuminating the magnificence of the mundane. Drawing on the evangelical discourses emerging from the splintering of the Presbyterian Church in 1843, they represented fiction as a form of spiritual comfort, an antidote to the dreary monotony and petty frustrations of daily existence. This volume introduces the previously overlooked tradition of nineteenth-century Scottish women's writing, and corrects previously male-dominated histories of the Scottish novel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shields, Juliet

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Scottish Novel after Scott; 1. Oliphant, Scott, and the Novelist's Trade; 2. Annie S. Swan's Friendly Fiction; 3. The Scottish New Woman and the Art of Self-Sacrifice; 4. The Colonial Adventure Story and the Return of Romance; 5. Scottish Modernism and Middlebrow Aesthetics; Conclusion: The Ethics and Politics of Transfiguring the Commonplace.

Über Autor(innen)

Shields, Juliet
JULIET SHIELDS is a Professor of English at the University of Washington. She is also the author of Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity (2010) and Nation and Migration: the Making of British Atlantic Literature (2016).