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- Taking Liberties: Scottish Literature and Expressions of Freedom
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Association for Scottish Literary Studies
- Series: Occasional Papers series
summary
The notion of “freedom” has long been associated with a number of perceptions deemed fundamental to an understanding of Scotland and the Scots. Thus Scottish history is viewed, from resistance to the Roman Empire, to the Wars of Independence against England, to the eighteenth-century Jacobite uprisings, to the birth of the Labour and Trade Union movements. Key Scottish texts have the concept of liberty at their core: the Declaration of Arbroath, Barbour’s Brus, Blind Hary’s Wallace, the poems of Robert Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid and the novels of Janice Galloway and Irvine Welsh. Scottish thinkers have written extensively on the philosophies of freedom, be it individual, economic, or religious. These essays examine the question of “freedom”, its representations and its interpretations within the literatures of Scotland.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-ii
- Introduction
- pp. v-x
- Part 1. Concepts and Themes
- Part 2. Individual Writers and Freedom
- Notes on Contributors
- pp. 237-242
Additional Information
ISBN
9781908980229
Related ISBN(s)
9781908980212
MARC Record
OCLC
962781614
Pages
240
Launched on MUSE
2016-11-19
Language
English
Open Access
No