In this Book
- Empires and Revolutions: Cunninghame Graham and His Contemporaries
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Association for Scottish Literary Studies
- Series: Occasional Papers series
summary
The European age of empires launched a process of capitalist globalisation that continues to the present day. It is also inextricably linked with the spread of revolutionary discourses in terms of race, nation, class, and gender: the quest for emancipation, democracy, political independence, and economic equality. R. B. Cunninghame Graham (1852–1936), in both his life and his oeuvre, most effectively represents the complex interaction between imperial and revolutionary discourses in this dramatic period. Throughout his life he was an outspoken critic of injustice and inequality, and his appreciation of the demands and customs of diverse territories and contrasting cultures were hallmarks of his life, his political ideas, and his writing. This collection explores the expression of these ideas in the works of Cunninghame Graham and other Scottish writers in the century between 1850 and 1950.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9781908980267
Related ISBN(s)
9781908980250
MARC Record
OCLC
1001624554
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2017-08-26
Language
English
Open Access
No