A History of Scottish Women's Writing

A History of Scottish Women's Writing
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Publisher : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 752
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015039929826
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Book Synopsis A History of Scottish Women's Writing by : Douglas Gifford

Download or read book A History of Scottish Women's Writing written by Douglas Gifford and published by Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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