Caroline Mccracken Flesher: 4 books
by Caroline McCracken-Flesher, John Corbett, Cairns Craig
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international...
Scotland and the First World War
Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Bannockburn
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity from the aftermath of Bannockburn to the close of the nineteenth century, and what did the Scottish soldiers of the First...
Possible Scotlands
Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2005
No thanks to Walter Scott, Scotland has at last regained its parliament. If this statement sounds extreme, it echoes the tone that criticism of Scott and his culture has taken through the twentieth century. Scott is supposed to have provided stories of the past that allowed his country no future--that...
The Doctor Dissected
A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
A series of bizarre disappearances filled the citizens of early nineteenth-century Scotland with terror. When the perpetrators were finally apprehended in 1828, their motive roiled the nation: William Burke and William Hare had murdered for profit. The cadavers supplied a ready payout, courtesy of...