Bannockburns: Scottish Independence and Literary Imagination, 1314-2014

Author:   Robert Crawford
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9780748685844


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   25 January 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Bannockburns: Scottish Independence and Literary Imagination, 1314-2014


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Did you know the Battle of Bannockburn had its own poet-in-residence? Starting in 1314 and coming right up to the present day, poet and critic Robert Crawford examines how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film the ideal of Scottish independence. Beginning with medieval commemorations of Bannockburn, this sweeping and ambitious book also includes the most detailed consideration of what independence meant to Robert Burns.

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Author:   Robert Crawford
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.355kg
ISBN:  

9780748685844


ISBN 10:   0748685847
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   25 January 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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'Alas! I have often said to myself, what are all the boasted advantages which my Country reaps from a certain Union, that can counterbalance the annihilation of her Independence, & even her very Name.' Robert Burns


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Robert Crawford is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St Andrews and is well-known as a poet, scholar and critic.

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