|
Showing 1 - 9 of
9 matches in All Departments
This collection includes the first critical editions of both Anne
Grant's Letters from the Mountains (1806), one of the Romantic
era's most successful non-fictional accounts of the Scottish
Highlands, and Elizabeth Isabella Spence's Letters from the North
Highlands (1816), a work that, while influenced by Grant's Letters,
attempted to move the genre of the Scottish travelogue in new
directions. Read together, these volumes offer complementary views
of Scottish Highland life at a time of major historical transition:
Grant was offering outsiders her perspective as a long-time
resident of the region, while Spence was, unapologetically, writing
as a tourist. The Highlands were central to Romantic-era debates on
subjects ranging from landscape and aesthetics to national
identities, and, as this collection demonstrates, women were making
significant contributions to those debates. The four volume set,
edited by Kirsteen McCue and Pam Perkins, is accompanied by new
editorial material including a new general introduction and
headnotes to each work.
|
An Orkney Tapestry (Paperback)
Linden Bicket, Kirsteen McCue; George Mackay Brown
|
R403
R364
Discovery Miles 3 640
Save R39 (10%)
|
Ships in 9 - 15 working days
|
First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown's
seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet.
Originally commissioned by his publisher as an introduction to the
Orkney Islands, Brown approached the writing from a unique
perspective and went on to produce a rich fusion of ballad, folk
tale, short story, drama and environmental writing. The book,
written at an early stage in the author's career, explores themes
that appear in his later work and was a landmark in Brown's
development as a writer. Above all, it is a celebration of Orkney's
people, language and history. This edition reproduces Sylvia
Wishart's beautiful illustrations, commissioned for the original
hardback. Made available again for the first time in over 40 years,
this new edition sits alongside Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain
as an important precursor of environmental writing by the likes of
Kathleen Jamie, Robert Macfarlane, Malachy Tallack and, most
recently, Amy Liptrot.
This volume contains Elizabeth Isabella Spence's Letters from the
North Highlands, one of the Romantic era's most successful
non-fictional accounts of the Scottish Highlands (1816), a work
that, while influenced by Grant's Letters from the Mountains
(1806), attempted to move the genre of the Scottish travelogue in
new directions.
This volume contains the first volume of Anne Grant's Letters from
the Mountains (1806), one of the Romantic era's most successful
non-fictional accounts of the Scottish Highlands.
This volume contains the third volume of Anne Grant's Letters from
the Mountains (1806), one of the Romantic era's most successful
non-fictional accounts of the Scottish Highlands.
This volume contains the second volume of Anne Grant's Letters from
the Mountains (1806), one of the Romantic era's most successful
non-fictional accounts of the Scottish Highlands. It is part of a
four volume set, edited by Kirsteen McCue and Pam Perkins, which is
accompanied by new editorial material including a new general
introduction and headnotes to each work.
The proposed Contributions to Musical Collections and Miscellaneous
Songs volume provides access to the relevant material in the
various musical collections to which Hogg refers in his 1831 head
notes, thus allowing the new readers of the 21st century to see in
facsimile what Hogg himself saw. This procedure provides a broader
context - in literary and musical terms - in which to enhance our
understanding of the reception of Hogg's songs during his lifetime.
|
Burns Encyclopaedia (Hardcover)
David Purdie, Kirsteen McCue, Gerard Carruthers
|
R940
R825
Discovery Miles 8 250
Save R115 (12%)
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
Robert Burns (1759-96) remains Scotland's greatest poet, songwriter
and song-collector. Regarded by Keats and Wordsworth as a morning
star of the Romantic Movement in verse, he was also admired by
Beethoven and Haydn who set accompaniments for many of his songs. A
farmer turned excise officer, he attracted censure for his
outspoken advocacy of electoral and parliamentary reform, yet he
died a serving soldier in a Volunteer Regiment during the wars with
post-revolutionary France. The Burns Encyclopaedia was first
published in 1959 by Maurice Lindsay and this is the fourth edition
- the first since 1980. All aspects of the poet's biography and
literary output are covered, as are his correspondents and
contemporaries, many of the latter set against the backdrop of
Enlightenment Edinburgh. The present edition has been thoroughly
revised and updated in the light of contemporary scholarship. It
will be an essential vade mecum for all who are interested in
Robert Burns - and in the literary, social and political ambience
not just of Scotland but of the UK in the latter decades of the
eighteenth century.
Hogg's involvement with song collecting and writing spans the whole
of his career, from the early 1800s until the early 1830s, and
examples are found across all genres of his work - fiction, drama,
poetry and in a number of important musical publications. His 1831
collection entitled Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd came about as an
attempt to better his difficult financial situation, and is of
particular interest and significance. It was published towards the
end of his career, and it provides his own retrospective
presentation of his lifetime achievement as a song-writer. This
critical edition of Hogg's volume makes his songs accessible for
the first time. The layout mirrors the original volume which
contained 'head notes' by Hogg himself. These notes provide a great
deal of factual, biographical and anecdotal information which
proves vitally important to our understanding of the development of
his role as a song writer and collector. Alongside the text of
Songs from 1831, this edition will contain an introduction
discussing Hogg's role as a song writer and collector and a
detailed account of the creation of the original manuscript.
|
You may like...
Ab Wheel
R209
R149
Discovery Miles 1 490
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|