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Cairns Craig

Born

in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

February 16, 1949

Genre

Scottish Literature, Scottish Culture

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Robert Cairns Craig, OBE, FRSE, FBA is a Scottish literary scholar, specialising in Scottish and modernist literature. He has been Glucksman Professor of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen since 2005. Before that, he taught at the University of Edinburgh, serving as Head of the English Literature Department from 1997 to 2003. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005.

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Average rating: 4.08 · 101 ratings · 12 reviews · 53 distinct works

	Iain Banks's 'Complicity': A Reader's Guide 4.23 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of History: Narrative Paradigms in Scottish and British Culture 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twentieth Century Scottish Drama: An Anthology by Cairns Craig (Editor), Randall Stevenson (Editor), J.M. Barrie (Contributor) 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Intending Scotland: Explorations in Scottish Culture since the Enlightenment it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1981 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Muriel Spark, Existentialism and The Art of Death liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History of Scottish Literature, Volume 4: The Twentieth Century by Cairns Craig (Editor), Joy Hendry (Contributor), Colin Milton (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1987 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of the Scottish Novel it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“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.”
― Cairns Craig, The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence

tags: british-empire, scotland, scottish-nationalism

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“England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales might have been partners in an imperial project that required the projection of 'English Literature' as one of the defining elements of cultural superiority that justified the continuous extension of Empire throughout the nineteenth century, but they were also engaged in an internal struggle over the origins and the dynamics of that literature, and about the role of their national literatures within the consolidating discipline of English.”
― Cairns Craig, The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence

tags: british-empire, english-literature, irish-literature, scottish-literature, welsh-literature

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“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.”
― Cairns Craig, The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence

tags: highlands, lowlands, scottish-culture

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