Cairns Craig
Born
in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
February 16, 1949
Genre
Influences
![]() |
Iain Banks's 'Complicity': A Reader's Guide
—
published
2002
|
|
![]() |
The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination
2 editions
—
published
1999
—
|
|
![]() |
Out of History: Narrative Paradigms in Scottish and British Culture
2 editions
—
published
1996
—
|
|
![]() |
Twentieth Century Scottish Drama: An Anthology
by
2 editions
—
published
2000
—
|
|
![]() |
The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence
2 editions
—
published
2018
—
|
|
![]() |
A History of the Scottish Novel
|
|
![]() |
Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry
8 editions
—
published
1981
—
|
|
![]() |
Muriel Spark, Existentialism and the Art of Death
2 editions
—
published
2019
—
|
|
![]() |
Associationism and the Literary Imagination: From the Phantasmal Chaos
—
published
2007
|
|
![]() |
The History of Scottish Literature, Volume 4: The Twentieth Century
by
2 editions
—
published
1987
—
|
|
“Scotland had no need of a 'resistant nationalism' precisely because it was an imperial nation engaged in projecting its national culture to the world. The historical problem of Scotland's 'absent nationalism' in the nineteenth century is a non-problem because far from lacking a nationalism, Scottish nationalism was vigorously engaged on imposing itself wherever Scots had achieved a determining or a significant role within the territory of the British Empire. Scottish nationalism did not need to assert itself within the British state because the 'world was its field', and its aim was to make Scotland the spiritual core of the imperial project.”
― The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence
― The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence
“Scott and Terry created a political theatre in which a Hanovarian English monarch could appear on the stage of Edinburgh to act the part of a Stuart king.”
― The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence
― The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence
“The attempt to separate Lowland from Highland Scotland ignores the extent to which Lowland Scots are the descendants of Highlanders, and how many Lowland Scots, like Nan Shepherd, made the country's mountains the focus of their spiritual aspirations. 'Highlandism' is not simply the ersatz adoption of a stereotypical version of Scottish culture which is entirely unconnected with the reality of modern Scottish life: the Highlands are both the geographical and the historical backdrop with which 'Lowland' Scottish culture interacts.”
― The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence
― The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence
Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Cairns to Goodreads.