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This book highlights the variety of literary, social, political and philosophical reverberations of the war in Scottish writing. Part one of the collection presents multi-text case studies of areas such as Scottish Great War prose, popular literature, women's letters to the editor, Gaelic writing and philosophy. Part two contains essays devoted to individual authors, including canonical figures such as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Nan Shepherd, Neil Gunn and John Buchan, as well as peripheral authors such as A. C. Mackinlay, Charles Murray and Ewart Alan Mackintosh.
Contents
Introduction: 'A reflection of the contrasts': Scottish Literature and World War I David A. Rennie
Part One: Multi-text Case Studies
Scottish Literature, Nationalism and the First World WarAlan Riach
'It Takes All Sorts to Make a Type': Scottish Great War ProseDavid A. Rennie
Unquiet on the Home Front: Scottish Popular Fiction and the Truth of WarDavid Goldie
'One Who Has Sacrificed': The Use of 'High Diction' in Women's Correspondence to Scottish Newspapers during the First World WarSarah Pedersen
Gaelic VerseRonald Black
Gaelic ProseRonald Black
Scottish Philosophy and the First World WarCairns Craig
Part Two: Individual Authors
What Next?: Nan Shepherd and the First World WarAlison Lumsden
Pagan Modernism: First World War and Spiritual Revival in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song and Neil M. Gunn's Highland RiverScott Lyall
A Bounded Heaven: George A.C. Mackinlay and Great War PastoralRandall Stevenson
Pastoral as Propaganda in John Buchan's Wartime WritingFiona Houston
Charles Murray and A Sough o' WarRobert Crawford
'But Change, Nothing Abides': Sunset Song and the Nature of ChangeJohn Lucas
Ewart Alan Mackintosh in Memoriam: Leadership, Patriotism, and Posthumous Commemoration Neil McLennan
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