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Author : B. A. Sheen
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781590332603
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (326 download)
Download or read book English Writers written by B. A. Sheen and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Writers - A Bibliography with Vignettes
Author : Donald Omand
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Borders Book written by Donald Omand and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland.
Author : Ian Crofton
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857908014
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Walking the Border written by Ian Crofton and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2013 Ian Crofton undertook a journey he had been pondering for years: a walk along the Border between Scotland and England. It would be an exploration both of his own identity - not quite Scottish, not quite English - and of a largely unexplored stretch of country. Apart from the line marked on the map, the route is not obvious. For much of its length the Border either follows the middle of various rivers, or traces the Southern Upland watershed, an area of bleak moorland and dense conifer plantations. During the course of his walk, Ian Crofton investigates the history, literature and legend of the Border. He talks to a range of people he comes across - farmers, landladies, bar staff, anglers, labourers, shepherds, shopkeepers - to find out what they make of the Border, if anything at all. Such conversations lead to a consideration of the very nature of borders. Do they provide a necessary defence of the nationstate? Or are they, in this day and age, an affront to global justice? Walking the Border is in the best traditions of travel writing, combining vivid description with human insight, the whole spiced with a wry sense of the absurdity and necessity of both inward and outward journeys.
Author : Raymond Lamont Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Robert Burns's Tour of the Borders written by Raymond Lamont Brown and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen McAulay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317084756
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era written by Karen McAulay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the earliest documented Scottish song collectors actually to go 'into the field' to gather his specimens, was the Highlander Joseph Macdonald. Macdonald emigrated in 1760 - contemporaneously with the start of James Macpherson's famous but much disputed Ossian project - and it fell to the Revd. Patrick Macdonald to finish and subsequently publish his younger brother's collection. Karen McAulay traces the complex history of Scottish song collecting, and the publication of major Highland and Lowland collections, over the ensuing 130 years. Looking at sources, authenticity, collecting methodology and format, McAulay places these collections in their cultural context and traces links with contemporary attitudes towards such wide-ranging topics as the embryonic tourism and travel industry; cultural nationalism; fakery and forgery; literary and musical creativity; and the move from antiquarianism and dilettantism towards an increasingly scholarly and didactic tone in the mid-to-late Victorian collections. Attention is given to some of the performance issues raised, either in correspondence or in the paratexts of published collections; and the narrative is interlaced with references to contemporary literary, social and even political history as it affected the collectors themselves. Most significantly, this study demonstrates a resurgence of cultural nationalism in the late nineteenth century.
Author : Nicholas Dickson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Border Magazine written by Nicholas Dickson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Maycock
Publisher : Hypatia Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781872229423
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (294 download)
Download or read book A Passionate Poet written by Christopher Maycock and published by Hypatia Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nigel Leask
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198850026
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Stepping Westward written by Nigel Leask and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Hogg, Keats, Daniell, and Turner, as well as numerous less celebrated travellers and tourists. Addressing more than a century's worth of literary and visual representations of the Highlands, the book casts new light on how the tour developed a modern literature of place, acting as a catalyst for thinking about improvement, landscape, and the shaping of British, Scottish, and Gaelic identities. It pays attention to the relationship between travellers and the native Gaels, whose world was plunged into crisis by rapid and forced social change. At the book's core lie the best-selling tours of Pennant and Dr Johnson, associated with attempts to 'improve' the intractable Gaidhealtachd in the wake of Culloden. Alongside the Ossian craze and Gilpin's picturesque, their books stimulated a wave of 'home tours' from the 1770s through the romantic period, including writing by women like Sarah Murray and Dorothy Wordsworth. The incidence of published Highland Tours (many lavishly illustrated), peaked around 1800, but as the genre reached exhaustion, the 'romantic Highlands' were reinvented in Scott's poems and novels, coinciding with steam boats and mass tourism, but also rack-renting, sheep clearance, and emigration.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott A. McLean
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770703284
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)
Download or read book William Wye Smith written by Scott A. McLean and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-11-10 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emphasized the virtues of early rural pioneers and life on the land as a general criticism of what they perceived to be the negative, alienating influence of Ontario’s rapid urban and industrial expansion. Such work often highlighted the difficulties the recent emigrant faced: the clearing of forest and the breaking of new ground, the isolation and long Canadian winters; however they in turn celebrated the progress demonstrated in the pioneer’s domination over nature, the establishment of thriving communities and the extension of transportation networks. William Wye Smith, a popular nineteenth century Upper Canadian poet, was no exception. Smith prepared his Canadian Reminiscences, a hand-written compilation of anecdotes collected during his lifetime that relate to his experience as journalist, clergyman and son of Scottish settlers, to provide his own unique perspective of pioneer life. This fully annotated version of Smith’s unpublished manuscript highlights Smith’s unwitting testimony to the social life of the province, his relationship to the construction and maintenance of Scottish and Canadian identity, as well as his position in literary history.
Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857901141
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book The Borders written by Alistair Moffat and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed book, Alistair Moffat tells the story of a part of Scotland that has played a huge role in the nation's history and moved poets, painters and writers as well as ordinary people for hundreds of years. The hunter-gatherers who first penetrated the virgin interior, the Celtic warlords, the Romans, the Northumbrians and the Reivers, who dominated the Anglo-Scottish borderlands for over 300 years, have all had their part to play in the constantly evolving life of the area. It is the people of a place that make its history and Alistair Moffat's book is a testament to those who have made the Borders their home, and who have created the traditions, myths and romance that define it so strongly.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.
Author : Keith Durham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849081948
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Border Reiver 1513–1603 written by Keith Durham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stretching from the North Sea to the Solway Firth, the Border region has a sharply diverse landscape and was a battleground for over 300 years as the English and Scottish monarchs encouraged their subjects to conduct raids across their respective borders. This Warrior title will detail how this narrow strip of land influenced the Borderer's way of life in times of war. Covering every aspect of militant life, from the choice of weapons and armour to the building of fortified houses, this book gives the readers a chance to understand what it must have been like to live life in a late-medieval war zone.
Author : Leith Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139454137
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism written by Leith Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2004, Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism is a collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 - a key period marking the contested divide between Scottish Enlightenment and Romanticism in British literary history. Essays in the volume, by leading scholars from Scotland, England, Canada and the USA, address a range of major figures and topics, among them Hume and the Romantic imagination, Burns's poetry, the Scottish song and ballad revivals, gender and national tradition, the prose fiction of Walter Scott and James Hogg, the national theatre of Joanna Baillie, the Romantic varieties of historicism and antiquarianism, Romantic Orientalism, and Scotland as a site of English cultural fantasies. The essays undertake a collective rethinking of the national and period categories that have structured British literary history, by examining the relations between the concepts of Enlightenment and Romanticism as well as between Scottish and English writing.
Author : Clive Kristen
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1781662479
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Ghost Trails of Edinburgh and the Borders written by Clive Kristen and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular TV ghosthunter, Clive Kristen, takes the reader in search of grueseome events across the border in Scotland. The stories are woven into their historical context and take the reader to spooktacular places. From grisly murders to wronged women to unfinished business, south-east Scotland has a spook for the story.
Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Apa Publications (UK) Limited
ISBN 13 : 178919492X
Total Pages : 1318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Great Britain (Travel Guide eBook) written by Rough Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2018-08-04 with total page 1318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover Rough Guides' home patch with the most incisive and entertaining guidebook on the market. Whether you plan to tuck into a balti in Birmingham, get your thrills at Blackpool Pleasure Beach or tackle Scotland's majestic North Coast 500, The Rough Guide to Great Britain will show you the ideal places to sleep, eat, drink, shop and visit along the way. - Independent, trusted reviews written with Rough Guides' trademark blend of humour, honesty and insight, to help you get the most out of your visit, with options to suit every budget. - Full-colour maps throughout - navigate the medieval lanes of York or Bath's Georgian streets without needing to get online. - Stunning images - a rich collection of inspiring colour photography. -Things not to miss - Rough Guides' rundown of Britain's best sights and experiences. - Itineraries - carefully planned routes to help you organize your trip. - Detailed regional coverage- whether off the beaten track or in more mainstream tourist destinations, this travel guide has in-depth practical advice for every step of the way. Areas covered include: London and the southeast; the Cotswolds; Bath, Bristol and the southwest; East Anglia; the Midlands and the Peak District; Leeds, Manchester and the northwest; Yorkshire; Newcastle and the northeast; Cardiff and South Wales; Snowdonia; Edinburgh and the Lothians; Glasgow and the Clyde; the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Attractions include: Hampton Court Palace; Oxford's colleges; the Eden Project; Manchester's Northern Quarter; Hadrian's Wall; the Lake District; Portmeirion; Welsh castles; Edinburgh Festival and the West Highland Railway. - Basics - essential pre-departure practical information including getting there, local transport, accommodation, food and drink, the media, festivals and events, sports and outdoor activities. - Background information - a Contexts chapter devoted to history and film, plus recommended books. Make the Most of Your Time on Earth with The Rough Guide to Great Britain.
