RAPT IN PLAID: CANADIAN LITERATURE AND SCOTTISH TRADITION. by Waterston, Elizabeth - 2001

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. 344 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "(C)ombines reflection, criticism, and memoir to illustrate a curious and longlasting connection between Scottish and Canadian literary traditions. Examples drawn from genres including lyric poetry, narrative romance, war fiction, children's literature, sentimental fiction, thrillers, domestic novels, and short stories link Canadian writers such as John Richardson, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Sinclair Ross, Hugh MacLennan, Margaret Laurence, (L.M. Montgomery) and W.O. Mitchell to Scottish writers such as Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, J.M. Barrie, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Buchan, and George Mackay Brown. Each chapter traces the connections from directly imitative nineteenth-century Canadian writers to modern Canadian works where Scottish tradition persists, sometimes transformed and sometimes distorted. Lively biographical sketches and close analysis of particular passages by Scottish and Canadian writers are set in the context of multicultural, narrative, postmodern, and post-colonial theories. This study illuminates the way Scottish ideas and values still wield surprising power in Canadian politics, education, theology, economics, and social mores." Tiny bump at top of front hinge. Dust jacket has small areas of light edge wrinkling - mainly at top of spine, two small dints on rear hinge, very light rubbing, several light scratches at bottom of rear panel. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good.