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The Edinburgh Anthology of Scottish Literature Volume 1
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| Edited by Robert Irvine |
| ISBN 9781849210034 |
| Paperback 414 pages |
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| Published 30 September 2009
UK Price £21.95
US Price $28.95 |
This volume includes a selection of Scottish writing from one of its most innovative periods, the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
It ranges across literary genres from the controversial 'translations' of James Macpherson's Ossian poems to the prose polemic of Thomas Carlyle.
It includes a wide selection from the poetry of Robert Burns and the short fiction of James Hogg, and the complete texts of Joanna Baillie's play De Monfort, Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lay of the Last Minstrel, and John Galt's novel Annals of the Parish.
Footnotes elucidate historical and other references, and Scots words are fully glossed.
The introduction places these texts in the dynamic historical context in which this extraordinary literary flourishing occurred.
Dr Robert Irvine is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh.
His edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's Prince Otto (1885) for the New Edinburgh Edition of Stevenson's works appeared in May 2014.
His Selected Poems and Songs of Robert Burns for Oxford University Press (2013) has been published as a World's Classics paperback, |
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