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This lively new study is the very first book to offer an absorbing history of the uncharted territory that is Scottish Catholic fiction. For Scottish Catholic writers of the twentieth century, faith was the key influence on both their artistic process and creative vision.
By focusing on one of the best known of Scotland's literary converts, George Mackay Brown, this book explores both the Scottish Catholic modernist movement of the twentieth century and the particularities of Brown's writing which have been routinely overlooked by previous studies. The book provides sustained and illuminating close readings of key texts in Brown's corpus and includes detailed comparisons between Brown's writing and an established canon of Catholic writers, including Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Flannery O'Connor.
This timely book reveals that Brown's Catholic imagination extended far beyond the 'small green world' of Orkney and ultimately embraced a universal human experience.
By focusing on one of the best known of Scotland's literary converts, George Mackay Brown, this book explores both the Scottish Catholic modernist movement of the twentieth century and the particularities of Brown's writing which have been routinely overlooked by previous studies. The book provides sustained and illuminating close readings of key texts in Brown's corpus and includes detailed comparisons between Brown's writing and an established canon of Catholic writers, including Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Flannery O'Connor.
This timely book reveals that Brown's Catholic imagination extended far beyond the 'small green world' of Orkney and ultimately embraced a universal human experience.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Edinburgh |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Number of pages | 208 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781474411677, 9781474411660 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781474411653, 1474411657, 9781474445764 |
Publication status | Published - 10 Jul 2017 |
Publication series
Name | Scottish Religious Cultures: Historical Perspectives |
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Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- religion
- Scottish literature
- Scottish studies
- Catholicism
- George Mackay Brown
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Push the Boat Out
Gerry Cambridge (Contributor), Linden Bicket (Contributor), Malachy Tallack (Contributor), Roddy Woomble (Contributor), George Gunn (Contributor) & Nalini Paul (Contributor)
17 Oct 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Festival/Exhibition
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Book Launch: George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination
Linden Bicket (Contributor)
9 Nov 2017Activity: Other activity types › Other
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The Catholic imagination of George Mackay Brown
Linden Bicket (Speaker)
25 Feb 2016Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Linden Bicket
- School of Divinity - Lecturer in Literature and Religion
Person: Academic: Research Active