Caroline Mccracken-flesher

Kennedy & Boyd Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature Caroline Mccracken-flesher

Publisher Marketing: Scottish literature was so pervasive, the phenomenon sparked parodies like Sarah Greene's Scotch Novel Reading (1824). This anthology invites readers to experience the liveliness of those times, with all their innovations, opportunities, and raging debates. General readers will be able to enjoy the sudden changes of a burgeoning literature. They will also be guided toward a sense of the ongoing conceptual and literary struggles in a society that is challenged yet stimulated by conflicting forces. Traffic between country, town, and city; the tension between elites founded in class, education, or gender; the idea of home, set against the industry and empire that supported it; and the new and adjusted genres allowed by manufacture (e.g. the steam press), kept Scottish authors in constant movement. Students can develop an interest of their own, then use the book's structural hints to track it. Instructors can use the framework to connect easily to their own pedagogical focus in Scottish and other literatures. Contributor Bio:  McCracken-Flesher, Caroline Caroline McCracken-Flesher is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming.