From tartan to tartanry
Subtitle: Scottish culture, history and myth
By: edited by Ian Brown
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780748638772
Subjects: Civilization; Nationalism; Tartans; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Gheibhte breacain charnaid ('Scarlet Tartans would be got...'): the re-invention of tradition / Hugh Cheape; title: Plaiding the invention of Scotland / Murray Pittock; title: From David Stewart to Andy Stewart: the invention and re-invention of the Scottish soldier / Trevor Royle; title: Paying for the plaid: Scottish Gaelic identity politics in nineteenth-century North America / Michael Newton; title: Tartanry into Tartan: heritage, tourism and material culture / Ian Maitland Hume; title: Myth, political caricature and monstering the Tartan / Ian Brown; title: Tartanry and its discontents: the idea of popular Scottishness / Alan Riach; title: 'Wha's like us?' ethnic representation in music hall and popular theatre and the remaking of urban Scottish society / Paul Maloney; title: Literary Tartanry as translation / Susanne Hagemann; title: Looking at Tartan in film: history, identity, and spectacle / Richard Butt; title: Tartan comics and comic Tartanry / Margaret Munro; title: Rock, pop and Tartan / J. Mark Percival; title: Class warriors or generous men in skirts?: the Tartan army in the Scottish and foreign press / Hugh O'Donnell; title: Don't take the high road: Tartanry and its critics / David Goldie.