The Scottish Sketches of R.B. Cunninghame Graham
Author: Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13:
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Joseph Conrad's Letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-09-22
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780521129411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illuminating sequence of letters between Conrad and his provocative correspondent and friend R. B. Cunninghame Graham, published in 1969.
The Scottish World
Author: Billy Kay
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-12-02
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1780574010
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Thaim wi a guid Scots tongue in their heid are fit tae gang ower the warld' In The Scottish World, renowned broadcaster Billy Kay takes us on a global journey of discovery, highlighting the extraordinary influence the Scots have had on communities and cultures on almost every continent. While others have questioned the self-confidence of the Scots, Kay has travelled the world from Bangkok to Brazil, Warsaw to Waikiki and found ringing endorsements for the integrity and intellect, the poetry and passion of the Scottish people in every country he has visited. He expands people's view of Scotland by relating remarkable stories of the wealthy Scottish merchant community in Gdansk; of national geniuses of Scots descent, such as Lermontov in Russia and Grieg in Norway; of an American Civil War blamed on Sir Walter Scott and initiated in the St Andrew's Society of Charleston; of inspirational missionaries in Calabar and Budapest; of Scotch professors establishing football in soccer strongholds such as Barcelona and São Paulo; of pioneers like Sandeman and Cockburn, and the Scottish roots of many of the great wines of Europe; and of their amazing involvement in liberation movements in Malawi, Chile, Peru, Greece, Corsica and India. The Scottish World is a celebration of the enormous contribution the Scots have made to the modern world.
Literature of Travel and Exploration
Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-12
Total Pages: 3477
ISBN-13: 1135456623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Fin-de-Siecle Scottish Revival
Author: Michael Shaw
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2019-09-27
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1474433987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores cultural defence and revivalism in Scottish literature and artThe first book-length, interdisciplinary study on fin-de-sicle ScotlandUnlocks Scottish writers' and artists' participation in neo-paganism, the occult revival, neo-Catholicism and japonismeInformed by extensive analysis of under-explored archival materials, such as the Papers of Patrick GeddesRichly illustrated with artworks, photographs and ephemera As the Irish Revival took shape and the Home Rule debate dominated UK politics, what was happening in Scotland? This book reveals distinct but comparable concerns with cultural defence and revivalism in fin-de-sieI cle Scotland, evident in the work of a number of writers and artists including Robert Louis Stevenson, Patrick Geddes, Fiona Macleod, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Mona Caird, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Duncan and various contributors to The Evergreen. Situating Scottish literature and art alongside international developments in culture, especially the rise of decadence, symbolism and Celticism, Michael Shaw demonstrates the ways in which dissident fin-de-sieI cle styles and ideas supported and defined the Scottish Revival.
Bannockburns
Author: Robert Crawford
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0748685863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism and how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film the ideal of Scottish independence from 1314 to today. Publication coincides with the 700-year anniversary of the Battle o
A Brazilian Mystic
Author: Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
Publisher:
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 266
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 776
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides almost 2700 articles on twentieth-century authors from all over the world who wrote in English or whose works are available in English translation.
High and Low Moderns
Author: Maria DiBattista
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996-12-05
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0195359542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays on modernist culture reassesses the convergence of low and high cultures, of socialist and aesthete, late Victorian and young Georgian, the popular and the coterie. Academic literary studies have until recently preferred to treat the "opaque," "difficult" writings of high moderns Conrad, Yeats, Woolf, and Eliot, and the more accessible work of the low moderns Kipling, Shaw, and Wells in separate categories. In contributions by scholars David Bromwich, Roy Foster, Edna Longley, Louis Menand, Edward Mendelson, and others, High and Low Moderns brings these writers into critical proximity. Essays on such topics as the public mourning of Queen Victoria, Florence Farr and the "New Woman," the Edwardian Shaw, Lady Gregory's attraction to Irish felons, and the high artistic uses of low entertainments--cinema, detective fiction, and journalism-- introduce a subtler model of modernism, in which "demotic" and "elite" cultural forms criticize, imitate, and address one another.
