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  • Alexander Wilson

    Enlightened Naturalist

    de Edward H. Burtt Jr., Gerard Carruthers, Frank Gill, Irving N. Rothman, Rick Wright, John Kricher, William E. Davis, Jr. ...
    Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    When talking about the Enlightenment, ornithology is seldom the first topic of conversation. Still, Enlightenment and ornithology converge in one important respect, that of abundance. In our time, new-wave ornithologists have renewed their faith in eighteenth-century expectations for the discovery of a gigantic number of bird species. It is at this intersection between abundant modern science and ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Burns: Poems

    Edited by Gerard Carruthers

    de Robert Burns ...
    Series series Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series
    This volume collects the most essential of the immortal poems and songs of Scotland's beloved national bard. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.With the publication of his first book of poems in 1786, Robert Burns—the twenty-seven-year-old son of a farmer—became a national celebrity, hailed as the "Ploughman Poet." When he died ten years later, ten thousand people came to pay their respects at his ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns

    Edición de Gerard Carruthers ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national 'bard'. Robert Burns (1759-96) was a producer of lyrical verse, satirical poetry, in English and Scots, a song-writer and song-collector, a writer of bawdry, journals, commonplace books and correspondence. Sculpting his own image, his untutored rusticity was a sincere persona as much as ... Leer más

    $144.99 USD

  • 1820: Scottish Rebellion

    Essays on a Nineteenth-Century Insurrection

    Edición de Gerard Carruthers, Kevin Thomas Gallagher, Craig Lamont, George Smith ...
    The 1820 Scottish Rising has been increasingly studied in recent decades. This collection of essays looks especially at local players on the ground across multiple regional centres in the west of Scotland, as well as the wider political circumstances within government and civil society that provide the rising’s context. It examines insurrectionist preparation by radicals, the progress of the ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Companion to Scottish Literature

    Edición de Gerard Carruthers ...
    A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of the world’s leading experts in the field, this comprehensive resource provides the historical background of Scottish literature, highlights new critical approaches, and explores wider cultural and ... Leer más

    $167.00 USD

  • Literature and Union

    Scottish Texts, British Contexts

    Edición de Gerard Carruthers, Colin Kidd ...
    Literature and Union opens up a new front in interdisciplinary literary studies. There has been a great deal of academic work--both in the Scottish context and more broadly--on the relationship between literature and nationhood, yet almost none on the relationship between literature and unions. This volume introduces the insights of the new British history into mainstream Scottish literary ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature

    Edición de Gerard Carruthers, Liam McIlvanney ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Scotland's rich literary tradition is a product of its unique culture and landscape, as well as of its long history of inclusion and resistance to the United Kingdom. Scottish literature includes masterpieces in three languages - English, Scots and Gaelic - and global perspectives from the diaspora of Scots all over the world. This Companion offers a unique introduction, guide and reference work ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • Making British Culture

    English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740–1830

    de David Allan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship – including the hard-edged intellectual achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Scotland's Books

    A History of Scottish Literature

    de Robert Crawford ...
    From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. In Scotland's Books the much loved poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish imaginative writing and its relationship to the ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

    Intimate, Intellectual and Public Lives

    de Deborah Simonton ...
    The eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth, the political Union of 1707, the Jacobite Rebellions and the Enlightenment - events that were intrinsic to the creation of the modern nation and to putting Scotland on the international map. The impact of the era on modern Scotland can be ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Irish Poetry under the Union, 1801–1924

    de Matthew Campbell ...
    This book retells the story of Irish poetry written in English between the union of Britain and Ireland in 1801 and the early years of the Irish Free State. Through careful poetic and historical analysis, Matthew Campbell offers ways to read that poetry as ruptured, musical, translated and new. The book starts with the Romantic songs and parodies of nationalist and unionist writers - Moore, Mahony ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • English Literature in Context

    Edición de Paul Poplawski ...
    This is the second edition of English Literature in Context, a popular textbook which provides an essential resource and reference tool for all English literature students. Designed to accompany students throughout their degree course, it offers a detailed narrative survey of the diverse historical and cultural contexts that have shaped the development of English literature, from the Anglo-Saxon ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD