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1 Scottish Literature EDITOR’S NOTE 10.2478/abcsj-2021-0014 Scottish Literature: Representing the Nation in the Age of the Post-National Writing in 2006, the Scottish poet and academic Robert Crawford mused: “A small northern country with a present-day population of five million, Scotland, through its authors, has played an improbably large part in world literature” (Scotland’s Books 4). Similarly, the editors of the monumental Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, published in 2007, started their introductory chapter by noticing its merely recent “coming of age as a subject of serious critical study” (Brown et al. 3). In 2021, with both Scottish culture and politics at the center of attention in post-Brexit Europe, with Scottish studies firmly established as a field of scholarly interest, and classes on Scottish works taught in universities all over the globe, the impact of “Scotland’s books” may seem less unlikely; rather, it appears as the inevitable consequence of their unique positioning at the intersection th of geopolitics with world literature. Ever since the 18 century and the burst of James MacPherson’s Ossianic cycle onto the scene of budding European Romanticism, followed by Walter Scott’s invention of the genre of the historical novel a few decades later, Scottish writing has
American, British and Canadian Studies Journal – de Gruyter
Published: Dec 1, 2021
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