10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KAILYARD SCHOOL»
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kailyard school in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
kailyard school and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Scotland as We Know It: Representations of National Identity ...
In his broad survey, Modern Scottish Literature, Alan Bold warns against quick
dismissals of the popular late nineteenth-century “Kailyard School” of fiction: “[W]
e should be wary of categorizing the kailyarders as sentimental fools; they were ...
Richard Zumkhawala-Cook, 2008
2
Kailyard and Scottish Literature
The most influential book in this context is George Blake's Barrie and the Kailyard
School (1951). Although the title suggests a close focus on the 1890s and on
Barrie's work in particular, Blake's book is really an exposure of what Andrew ...
3
The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Literature in English
kailyard school A group of late 19th-century Scottish writers who wrote, often in
the vernacular, about homespun topics and promoted a sentimental image of
small-town life. 'Kailyard', meaning 'cabbage patch', was used by Ian Maclaren (
born ...
4
Robert Burns and Cultural Authority
It is an accepted thesis that the term Kailyard refers to a much wider spectrum of
Scottish culture than the fiction which traditionally bears its name.1 J. H. Millar, in
an article in the New Review in 1895, labelled as the Kailyard School a trio of ...
5
The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and ...
THE KAILYARD SCHOOL In the 1890s there was a flowering of the Scottish
provincial novel in a highly sentimental and romanticised form which came to be
known as the Kailyard School. The kailyard was the cabbage patch at the back of
a ...
6
Scottish Literary Movements: Castalian Band,
Kailyard ...
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Edwardian and Georgian Fiction
More generally for the Kailyard, see George Blake, Barrie and the Kailyard
School (1951); Eric Anderson, 'The Kailyard School', Nineteenth-Century Scottish
Fiction, edited by Ian Campbell (Manchester 1979); Thomas D. Knowles,
Ideology, ...
8
The Haunted Study: A Social History of the English Novel, ...
More generally forthe Kailyard, seeGeorge Blake,Barrie andthe Kailyard School (
1951); Eric Anderson, 'The Kailyard School', NineteenthCentury Scottish Fiction,
edited by Ian Campbell (Manchester 1979); Thomas D.Knowles, Ideology, ...
9
The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Enlightenment, ...
Further reading Blake, George (1951), Barrie and the Kailyard School, London:
Arthur Barker. Campbell, Ian (1981), Kailyard, Edinburgh: Ramsay Head Press.
Knowles, Thomas D. (1983), Ideology, Art and Commerce: Aspects of Literary ...
10
The Scots Imagination and Modern Memory
He was right to be concerned, for as Nash concludes, Nicoll's commercially-
driven placement of Scotland 'at the centre of British literary culture' elevated the
Kailyard School to a position within the nation's cultural heritage altogether ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KAILYARD SCHOOL»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
kailyard school is used in the context of the following news items.
Fields of blood and toil
But for those in the know, the allusion is to the Kailyard school of literature which embraced rural sentimentality and pastoral morality. «Herald Scotland, May 14»
Kale recipes: why now we're all eating our greens
... was a generic word for dinner) that they lent their name to a literary movement in the 1890s – the Kailyard school of fiction, of which JM Barrie ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 14»
