Tác giả: Ian Duncan

A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary science The 120 years between Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871) marked both t …

Scott’s Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cultural in …

Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes ‘;progress’ through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, o …

For several decades, interest in the British Romantics’ theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic …

This handbook provides guidance for all practising social work professionals, and the staff who support them, on the post-qualifying (PQ) framework for social workers. The book introduces the framewo …

‘How is the mind agitated and bewildered, at being thus, as it were, placed on the borders of a new world!’ – William Bartram’Thus you see, dear sister, the manners of mankind do not differ so widely …

‘How is the mind agitated and bewildered, at being thus, as it were, placed on the borders of a new world!’ – William Bartram’Thus you see, dear sister, the manners of mankind do not differ so widely …

More than a century after the Norman Conquest, England remains a colony of foreign warlords. The dissolute Prince John plots to seize his brother’s crown, his barons terrorize the country, and the my …

‘Your bed shall be the moorcock’s, and your life shall be like the hunted deer’s, and ye shall sleep with your hand upon your weapons.’Tricked out of his inheritance, shanghaied, shipwrecked off the …

‘Your bed shall be the moorcock’s, and your life shall be like the hunted deer’s, and ye shall sleep with your hand upon your weapons.’Tricked out of his inheritance, shanghaied, shipwrecked off the …

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James Hogg (1770-1835) is increasingly recognised as a major Scottish author and one of the most original figures in European Romanticism. 16 essays written by international experts on Hogg draw on r …

James Hogg (1770-1835) is increasingly recognised as a major Scottish author and one of the most original figures in European Romanticism. 16 essays written by international experts on Hogg draw on r …

‘We have heard much of the rage of fanaticism in former days, but nothing to this’A wretched young man, ‘an outcast in the world’, tells the story of his upbringing by a heretical Calvinist minister …

For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, Scott drew on the legends and historical anecdotes about Rob Roy Mac Gregor he had collected in his youth. The famous outl …

`the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended. The various checks with influence the struggle for existence in the world at large are all neutralized or altered. Creatures survive which would otherwise …

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