Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh Companions To The Gothic) - 9781474437714

Interrogates the Gothic in relation to Scotland, "Scottishness", British Gothic, cultural and national boundaries, and issues of identity. Written from various critical standpoints by internationally renowned scholars, Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion interrogates the ways in which theconcepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. This interdisciplinary collection is the first ever published study to investigate the multifarious strands of Gothic in Scottish fiction, poetry, theatre and film. Itscontributors - all specialists in their fields - combine an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of works, both classic and lesser known, produced between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries.

• | Author: Carol Margaret Davison|Monica Germanà, Monica Germanà
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 13, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1474437710
• | ISBN-13: 9781474437714