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Writing and Orality - Nationality, Culture, and Nineteenth-Century Scottish Fiction (Hardcover, New)
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Writing and Orality - Nationality, Culture, and Nineteenth-Century Scottish Fiction (Hardcover, New)
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This book explores the concepts of nationality and culture in the
context of nineteenth-century Scottish fiction, through the writing
of Walter Scott, James Hogg, R. L. Stevenson, and Margaret
Oliphant. It describes the relationship between speech writing as a
foundation of the literary construction of a particular national
identity, exploring how orality and literacy are figured in
nineteenth-century preoccupations with the definition of `culture'.
It further examines the importance of romance revival in the
ascendancy of the novel and the development of that genre across a
century which saw the novel stripped of its female associations and
accorded a masculine authority, touching on the sexualization of
language in the discourse between women's narrative (oral) and
men's narrative (written). The books importance for literary
studies lies in the investigation of some of the consequences of
deconstruction. It explores how the speech/writing opposition is
open to the influence of social and material forces. Focusing on
the writing of Scott, Hogg, Stevenson, and Oliphant, it looks at
the conflicts in narratological experiments in Scottish writing,
constructions of class and gender, the effects of popular literacy
and the material condition of books as artefacts and commodities.
This book is the first to offer a broad picture of the interaction
of Scottish fiction and modern theoretical thinking, taking its
roots from a combination of deconstruction, narrative theory, the
history of orality, linguistics and psychoanalysis.
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