Modern Scottish Culture - Softcover

Gardiner, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748620273 ISBN 13: 9780748620272

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2005

An overview of Scottish culture from the time of union with England and Wales up to and through the moment of devolution to the present.A wide-ranging introduction to Scottish culture, this book examines the central place of Scottish cultural studies within British cultural studies, describing the changing relationship of Scotland and the union as a whole. Scotland has a disproportionately high production of British output in many fields - technological, colonial, political, artistic and literary - and this book shows how Scotland, long used to the differences between nation and government, is leading the constitutional changes which are accompanying the break-up of the British union today. It condenses much of the pioneering research done on Scottish Studies over the last couple of decades, as well as introducing new research which helps link the field and make sense of this rapidly changing nation. Each chapter introduces an aspect of modern Scottish culture, including film, religion, sport, cultu

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Michael Gardiner is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick

Review:

A stimulating survey of Scottish cultural and political identity, from law to football, literature to architecture, education to religion, railyard to parliament and more. Gardiner reassesses in witty fashion what those often unexamined words 'Britain'and 'Scottish'might mean today, not to mention the status of that other stateless nation 'England'. His field is wide and from the Highland clearances to the 'cultural clearances', from Macbeth to Shallow Grave, Gardiner offers a highly entertaining primer on the state of Scotland, backed up by probing questions and excellent lists of further reading. A lively book from start to finish, informed, insightful, quick and irreverent.

(Roderick Watson, University of Stirling)

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.