The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing
Edited by Glenda Norquay
Recognises the richness of women's contribution to Scottish literature
By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped literary output and addresses the changing situations in which women lived and wrote. It places the work of established writers such as Margaret Oliphant, Naomi Mitchison and A.L. Kennedy in new contexts and discusses the writing of critically neglected figures such as Sìleas na Ceapaich, Mary Queen of Scots, Anne Grant, Janet Hamilton, Isabella Bird, F. Marion McNeill and Denise Mina. There are chapters on women in Gaelic culture, women's relationship to oral traditions and to key literary periods, women's engagements with nationalism, with space, with genre fiction and with the activity of reading.
Key features- Includes innovative scholarship from leading critics of gender and Scottish Studies, including Sarah Dunnigan (Edinburgh), Carol Anderson (Open University), Pam Perkins (Manitoba), Florence Boos (Iowa)
- Responds to current developments in the field of feminist and literary studies
- Includes an authoritative introduction and a guide to further reading
Acknowledgements
Series Editors’ Preface
Introduction, Glenda Norquay
1. Spirituality, Sarah Dunnigan
2. Gaelic Poetry and Song, Anne Frater and Michel Byrne
3. Orality and the Ballad Tradition, Suzanne Gilbert
4. Enlightenment Culture, Pam Perkins
5. Domestic Fiction, Ainsley McIntosh
6. Janet Hamilton: Working-class Memoirist and Commentator, Florence Boos
7. Private Writing, Aileen Christianson
8. Margaret Oliphant and the Periodical Press, Helen Sutherland
9. Writing the Supernatural, Kirsty A. Macdonald
10. Interwar Literature, Margery Palmer McCulloch
11. Writing Spaces, Carol Anderson
12. Experiment and Nation in the 1960s, Eleanor Bell
13. Genre Fiction, Glenda Norquay
14. Twentieth Century Poetry, Rhona Brown
15. Contemporary Fiction, Monica Germanà
Endnotes
Further reading
Notes on Contributors.
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This is a pleasant, readable collection of essays with some lively and surprising perceptions.
Provides readers with an accessible introduction to approximately five hundred years of Gaelic and English language women's writing in Scotland, across literary genres.
Provides readers with an accessible introduction to approximately five hundred years of Gaelic and English language women's writing in Scotland, across literary genres.
