Scottish Literature and World War I - Paperback

by David A. Rennie (Editor)

Explores the connections between Scottish writing and World War I

• Includes studies united by an innovative methodological approach to Scottish World War I writing
• Contends that the war's effect on Scotland and Scottish letters was more multifaceted and far-ranging than prior assessments have allowed for
• Addresses work by some of Scotland's most popular and influential writers, such as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, John Buchan, Nan Shepherd, Neil Gunn, Charles Hamilton Sorley, and Hugh MacDiarmid

This book highlights the variety of literary, social, political and philosophical reverberations of the war in Scotland writing. Part one of the collection presents multi-text case studies of areas such as Scottish Great War prose, popular literature, women's letters to the editor, Gaelic writing and philosophy. Part two contains essays devoted to individual authors, including canonical figures Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Nan Shepherd, Neil Gunn and John Buchan, as well as peripheral authors such as A. C. Mackinlay, Charles Murray and Ewart Alan Mackintosh.

Back Jacket

'The 600,000 men who fought in Scottish regiments or in the Navy and Air Force during the Great War fought for Scotland, to them a palpable space of affect and meaning. This important book of essays breaks new ground in capturing the ways that the Great War reconfigured the boundaries between Scottish and British culture.' Jay Winter, Yale University Explores the connections between Scottish writing and World War I This book highlights the variety of literary, social, political and philosophical reverberations of the war in Scottish writing. Part one of the collection presents multi-text case studies of areas such as Scottish Great War prose, popular literature, women's letters to the editor, Gaelic writing and philosophy. Part two contains essays devoted to individual authors, including canonical figures such as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Nan Shepherd, Neil Gunn and John Buchan, as well as peripheral authors such as A. C. Mackinlay, Charles Murray and Ewart Alan Mackintosh. David A. Rennie an Honorary Research Associate of the Centre for the Novel, University of Aberdeen. Cover image: Stonehaven War Memorial (c) Casey Rennie Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-5459-9 Barcode

Author Biography

David A. Rennie gained a PhD in American World War I literature from Aberdeen University in 2017. He is the author of American Writers and World War I (2020) and essays in The Hemingway Review and The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review.