The contributors to this volume of essays take a new look at nineteenth-century Scottish prose writing.
Literary and social historians from Austria, Canada, England, France, Germany, Scotland, the United States, and Wales discuss nationalist tendencies and the search for cultural and/or national/ regional identity in literature.
The contributions concerned with Scottish Medieval and Renaissance literature focus (1) on literary structures considered specifically Scottish, (2) on the European context in which Scottish poetry of these periods must be understood and ...
