Robin Jenkins (1912-2005) is one of the most distinguished novelists of post war Britain. In a career which lasted some fifty years, he became a perceptive, though disenchanted, observer of Scottish society.However, we are less familiar with a second aspect of his work, nine novels and collections of short-stories which are set abroad and find inspiration in the author’s own experience as a teacher in Afghanistan, Catalonia and Malaysia in the 1960s.For Jenkins this withdrawal from the Scottish scene offered a much needed distance at a time when he was increasingly dissatisfied with Scottish society and the lack of vitality of the literary scene. It also gave the opportunity for a discovery of new cultures and territories.What the books hav...
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Au sortir de la première guerre mondiale, John Brandane participe activement à la fondation du théât...
MacPherson et Scott n’ont pas été les premiers à réécrire le passé écossais afin de servir son prése...
As in many other avant-garde contexts in the early years of the twentieth century, little magazines ...
Over the years, the Scottish National Party has clearly emphasised the alienness of England’s ethos ...
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the Scottish elite, having taken advantage of opport...
The exile and especially the transportation of political radicals in the late eighteenth and early n...
The paper proposes to examine how Peter Urpeth, in his first published novel Far Inland (2006), atte...
International audienceThe paper proposes to examine how Peter Urpeth, in his first published novel F...
In Old Men in Love (2007), a book he has himself described as his last novel (but by no means his la...
From the 1820s onwards, British art critics spoke of a Scottish school of art, which could be identi...
In the eighteenth century, a prolonged stay in Rome was essential in the career of a painter. In thi...
The politically and culturally diverse north western territories of the Holy Roman Empires so far la...
The need to introduce more transparency in the way devolution is funded in Scotland and Wales is mor...
Né en 1835 dans une famille d’ouvriers agricoles vivant dans un village de la péninsule de Kintyre, ...
International audienceFrom the beginning of the nineteenth century, there was a renewal of interest ...
Au sortir de la première guerre mondiale, John Brandane participe activement à la fondation du théât...
MacPherson et Scott n’ont pas été les premiers à réécrire le passé écossais afin de servir son prése...
As in many other avant-garde contexts in the early years of the twentieth century, little magazines ...