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The eighteenth century was a time of dramatic change and drastic upheaval in Scotland, from the Treaty of Union with England in 1707, through Jacobite rebellions in the Highlands, to the Scottish Enlightenment. This was the century when Scottish writing exploded across the globe, from Hume and Smith, from Macpherson's Ossian, from Burns and from Scott, transforming world literature and culture. Crossing the Highland Line is a new collection of essays examining this crucial period, exploring the literary connections and influences across Scotland, and tracing the links between those who wrote in Scots and English and those who wrote in Gaelic. These essays, from fourteen leading scholars, show that the whole of Scotland - Highland and Lowland, high cultures and low - participated in the reshaping of literature in the eighteenth century. The Highland Line does not divide.

Book details

• Full title: Crossing the Highland Line
• Subtitle: Cross-Currents in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Literature
• Author: Christopher Maclachlan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780948877889
• ISBN: 9780948877889
• ID: 09549427
• Publisher: Association for Scottish Literary Studies
• Weight: 338 g
• Dimensions: 212 × 150 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. February 2009

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