Research Catalog

Title

Scotland's books : the Penguin history of Scottish literature / Robert Crawford.

Author

Crawford, Robert, 1959-

Publication

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2007.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xv, 830 p. : ill., map; 20 cm.

Summary

Stretching from the earliest written monuments during the Roman Empire to the thriving world of modern Scottish imaginative writing, this title is packed with research on some of the best works of a literature that extends far beyond the borders in which it was written.

Subject

• English literature > History and criticism
• Literature and history > Scotland > History
• Bellettrie
• Scotland > Intellectual life
• Scotland > In literature
• Schotland

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 729-773) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Praise -- Liberty -- Reformation -- The staggering state -- Ever green -- The Scottish Enlightenment -- The Age of Burns -- Volcano, wizard, bankrupt, spy -- Scotland and London -- Renaissance -- Hard-wearing flowers -- Globalization and a Smirr of rain.

ISBN

9780140299403 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008399740

OCLC

123797020

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library