A01=Cairns Craig
Author_Cairns Craig
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Scottish History
Scottish Literature
Scottish Nationalism
Scottish Philosophy
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- ISBN 9781474435574
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2018
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A critical appraisal of Scotland's cultural wealth and global distinction'The Wealth of the Nation' explores how Scotland has continued to assert its distinctive cultural difference despite the three-hundred-year union with England and the modern forces of globalisation. Dealing with Scotland since the eighteenth century, the study analyses how Scottish culture defined itself within the British Empire and how, in the late twentieth century, it recovered from the collapse of the Empire to rebuild the value of its cultural past. Through its focus on the role of memory in philosophy, literature and the visual arts, readers will gain understanding of the influence that modern Scottish writers and artists have had on contemporary Scottish nationalism. The book argues that political nationalism in modern Scotland is founded on a cultural revival that began in the 1950s and 60s but gained momentum from resistance to the outcome of the 1979 devolution referendum. That resistance, and the creative achievements which it generated, provoked a re-examination of the nation's cultural history, revealing a wealth previously denied or forgotten.
Cairns Craig is Professor Emeritus in Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. His most recent books are The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture, Independence (2018) and Muriel Spark, Existentialism and the Art of Death (2019), both published by Edinburgh University Press. He was the general editor of the four volume History of Scottish Literature published by Aberdeen University Press in 1987, and was involved in editing the magazines Cencrastus and Radical Scotland in the 1980s. Other books on Scottish subjects include The Modern Scottish Novel (1999) and Intending Scotland (2009).
