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Kailyard and Scottish Literature (Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature)
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Kailyard and Scottish Literature (Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature)Kailyard and Scottish Literature (Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature)

For more than a century, the word 'Kailyard' has been a focal point of Scottish literary and cultural debate. Originally a term of literary criticism, it has come to be used, often pejoratively, across a whole range of academic and popular discourse. Historians, politicians and critics of Scottish film and media have joined literary scholars in using the term to set out a diagnosis of Scottish culture. This is the first comprehensive study of the subject. Andrew Nash traces the origins of the Kailyard diagnosis in the nineteenth century and considers the critical concerns that gave rise to it.
 
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