{"product_id":"lewis-grassic-gibbon-9781789620634","title":"Lewis Grassic Gibbon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLewis Grassic Gibbon galvanised the Scottish literary scene in 1932 with \u003ci\u003eSunset Song\u003c\/i\u003e, the first novel of the epic trilogy\u003ci\u003e A Scots Quair\u003c\/i\u003e, which drew vividly upon his upbringing on a croft in Aberdeenshire to capture the zeitgeist of the early twentieth century and provide a compelling moral mandate for social and political change in the inter-war period. Yet his literary legacy of seventeen volumes produced in his short life, under his own name of James Leslie Mitchell as well as his Scots pseudonym, testify to his versatility, as historian, essayist, biographer and fiction writer. Set against an informed conspectus of the author’s life and times and incorporating substantive new source material, this study highlights his core principles, rooted in his rural upbringing: his restless humanitarianism and his veneration for the natural world. Subsequently, he is seen as a combative writer whose fame in recent years – as cultural nationalist, left-wing libertarian, proto-feminist, neo-romantic visionary and trailblazing modernist – has carried far beyond his native land. In tune with the intellectual climate of the inter-war years, Gibbon emerges as a passionate advocate of revolutionary political activism. In addition, as a profound believer in the overarching primacy of nature, he stands as a supreme practitioner in the field of ecofiction. Coupled with his modernist accomplishments with language and narrative, this firmly establishes him among the foremost fiction writers of the twentieth century – uniquely, one whose achievement has consistently won both critical and popular acclaim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'William K. Malcolm's book is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to the life and work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Setting Gibbon's writing within the tumultuous historical contexts of the period, Malcolm portrays a hugely talented and hard-working novelist of radical political commitment whose tragically short life culminated in the achievement of \u003ci\u003eA Scots Quair\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the great novel sequences in twentieth-century literature in English.'\u003cbr\u003eDr Scott Lyall, Edinburgh Napier University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eBiographical Outline\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003eNote on the Texts\u003cbr\u003e1. Life and background\u003cbr\u003e2. Narrative preludes: \u003ci\u003eThe Calends of Cairo \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePersian Dawns, Egyptian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. The real stuff of history: \u003ci\u003eHanno\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNiger\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Conquest of the Maya \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNine Against the Unknown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Autofiction: \u003ci\u003eStained Radiance \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Thirteenth Disciple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Setting tales upon the truth: \u003ci\u003eThree Go Back\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Trumpet \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGay Hunter\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e6. Haunted by horrors: \u003ci\u003eImage and Superscription \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSpartacus\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e7. Distant cousin Lewis Grassic Gibbon: \u003ci\u003eA Scots Quair \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eScottish Scene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. Legacy\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042587476311,"sku":"9781789620634","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789620634.jpg?v=1750954759","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lewis-grassic-gibbon-9781789620634","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}