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From tartan to tartanry : Scottish culture, history and myth

2010
Books, Manuscripts
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
Collation:
vi, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-264) and index.
Contents:
Gheibhte breacain charnaid ('Scarlet Tartans would be got...'): the re-invention of tradition / Hugh Cheape -- Plaiding the invention of Scotland / Murray Pittock -- From David Stewart to Andy Stewart: the invention and re-invention of the Scottish soldier / Trevor Royle -- Paying for the plaid: Scottish Gaelic identity politics in nineteenth-century North America / Michael Newton -- Tartanry into Tartan: heritage, tourism and material culture / Ian Maitland Hume -- Myth, political caricature and monstering the Tartan / Ian Brown -- Tartanry and its discontents: the idea of popular Scottishness / Alan Riach -- 'Wha's like us?' ethnic representation in music hall and popular theatre and the remaking of urban Scottish society / Paul Maloney -- Literary Tartanry as translation / Susanne Hagemann -- Looking at Tartan in film: history, identity, and spectacle / Richard Butt -- Tartan comics and comic Tartanry / Margaret Munro -- Rock, pop and Tartan / J. Mark Percival -- Class warriors or generous men in skirts?: the Tartan army in the Scottish and foreign press / Hugh O'Donnell -- Don't take the high road: Tartanry and its critics / David Goldie.
ISBN:
0748638776 (hbk)9780748638772 (hbk)
Dewey class:
941.1
LC class:
DA772
Local class:
941.1
Language:
English
BRN:
1617053
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