Title Scottish women's writing in the long nineteenth century : the romance of everyday life / Juliet Shields, University of Washington

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 204 pages) Series Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 131 Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 131. Contents Oliphant, Scott, and the novelists's trade -- Annie S. Swan's friendly fiction -- The Scottish new woman and the art of self-sacrifice -- The colonial adventure story and the return of romance -- Scottish modernism and middlebrow aesthetics Summary "Walter Scott's tales of chivalry and adventure inaugurated a masculinized Scottish romance tradition that celebrated a sublime and heroic version of Scotland. Nineteenth-century Scotswomen responded to Scott's influence by establishing a counter-tradition of unromantic or even anti-romantic representations of Scotland. Their novels challenged the long-standing claim that Scotland lacked any equivalent to the English realist novel. In turning from the past to the present and from the sublimity of Scott's Highland landscapes to farmhouses, factories, and suburban villas, Scottish women writers brought romance to everyday life, illuminating the magnificence of the mundane. Drawing on the evangelical discourses emerging from the splintering of the Presbyterian Church in 1843, they represented fiction as a form of spiritual comfort, an antidote to the dreary monotony and petty frustrations of daily existence. This volume introduces the previously overlooked tradition of nineteenth-century Scottish women's writing, and corrects previously male-dominated histories of the Scottish novel"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 08, 2021) Subject English fiction -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English fiction -- Scottish authors English fiction -- Women authors Frauenliteratur Englisch Alltag Motiv Autorin Schottland Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book LC no. 2021019489 ISBN 9781009003254 1009003259 9781009000048 1009000047

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