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- catalog abstract ""This 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, Douglas Dunn, Les Murray and Derek Walcott. More than that, they are bound up with the contemporary literature and politics of Britain after devolution."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12251773.
- catalog coverage "Scotland Intellectual life.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""This 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, Douglas Dunn, Les Murray and Derek Walcott. More than that, they are bound up with the contemporary literature and politics of Britain after devolution."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 355 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "074861429X (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries.".
- catalog spatial "Scotland Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "American literature Scottish influences.".
- catalog subject "Canon (Literature)".
- catalog subject "English literature History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "English literature Scottish authors History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "English literature Scottish influences.".
- catalog subject "English literature".
- catalog subject "Literature and anthropology English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Literature and anthropology.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature)".
- catalog subject "PR21 .C7 2000".
- catalog subject "Scottish literature History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog title "Devolving English literature / Robert Crawford.".
- catalog type "text".