History of Scottish Women s Writing

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History of Scottish Women s Writing

Author	: Douglas Gifford
File Size	: 54,9 Mb
Publisher	: Edinburgh University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 31 March 2020
ISBN	: 9780748672660
Pages	: 741 pages

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History of Scottish Women s Writing by Douglas Gifford Book PDF Summary

This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.

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