Empires and revolutions
Subtitle: Cunninghame Graham and his contemporaries
By: edited by Carla Sassi and Silke Stroh
Series: Occasional papers -- number 22; Occasional papers (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) -- no. 22.
Publisher: Scottish Literature International
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Glasgow
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781908980250
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; English literature; History and criticism; Scottish authors; Imperialism in literature; Revolutions in literature
Description: The European age of empires is inextricably linked with the spread of revolutionary discourses (in terms of race, nation or social class): the quest for emancipation, political independence, and economic equality. R.B. Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936), in both his life and his oeuvre, represents the complex interaction between imperial and revolutionary discourses in this dramatic period. Throughout his life he was an outspoken critic of injustice and inequality, and his appreciation of the demands and customs of diverse territories and contrasting cultures were hallmarks of his life, his political ideas, and his writing. These essays explore the expression of these ideas in the works of Cunninghame Graham and of other Scottish writers of the period.