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These essays, first published between 1925 and 1927, propose a radical overhaul and a new construction of Scotland's cultural identity. MacDiarmid focuses on poetry and the novel, on theatre, art, music, history and education, and also on writing by women in Scotland. His criticism of conventional attitudes is balanced by an appraisal of the possibilities in Scotland for a renaissance in the arts and a reassertion of national cultural and political identity. MacDiarmid seeks to integrate cultural and social well being. How successful has his challenge been met? The essays are published with the correspondence to which they gave rise, and which form a running commentary. The author's 1976 comments appear in the book as an appendix.
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Ken Norman
reviewed Contemporary Scottish Studies on April 25, 2020
Contemporary Scottish Studies
This book is made up almost entirely of Alice in Wonderland pastiches, some intentional and some accidental on the part of their authors. Yes, there are some stories which subvert the common Victorian children's literature tropes more than the Alice books already do, but not signficantly more. And there are a few political parodies towards the end, but, on the whole, it's a book of Victorian and Edwardian Alice pastiches, some more successful than others.
None, even the more successful ones, come anywhere close to the wit and style of the Alice books, which makes this anthology a disappointment to someone coming to try to read more books in that vein. Rather, it's simply fascinating as a study of Victorian literature, and the effect Lewis Carroll had on it. The sentimentality and didacticism can get simply overwhelming if one isn't prepared for them, and I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone without a particular interest in Victorian children's literature - it's too overwhelming to foist on the ususpecting.
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