Clan-Albin: A National TaleAssociation for Scottish Literary Studies, 2003 - 598 páginas "Christian Isobel Johnstone, called "the bravehearted lady" by Thomas Carlyle, was editor for more than a decade of Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, a journal famous for its vigorous liberal viewpoints and incisive literary reviews. In 1815 Johnstone also became the author of one of the most extraordinary novels of the Romantic era, Clan-Albin. The story is centered around the childhood and adolescence of its orphan hero, Norman Macalbin, who leaves the poverty of the Highlands to volunteer for the army and journey in Ireland and Spain: but throughout the novel it is the voices of the strong female characters - Lady Augusta, Monimia, Flora and others - that we hear most clearly. These bring to us Johnstone's lament for the loss of Highland culture and scorn for the emergent southern mercantile classes, and portray war as a terrible tragedy whose glorification is unforgivable. Written in the year of Waterloo, Clan-Albin is a unique Scottish novel by an outstanding and neglected female voice."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... Highland Chieftain is typical of the vanities of fashion which Johnstone identifies as a feature of the establishment . Indeed , in the case at hand , Archibald is neither a Highland Chieftain nor a man of fashion : he is a bully , a ...
... Highland Chieftain is typical of the vanities of fashion which Johnstone identifies as a feature of the establishment . Indeed , in the case at hand , Archibald is neither a Highland Chieftain nor a man of fashion : he is a bully , a ...
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... Highland chief marries a wealthy heiress in London , who decides to accompany him north . Unlike the first volume of Susan Ferrier's Marriage , this tale has no room for comedy of any sort . The heroine learns Gaelic and desperately ...
... Highland chief marries a wealthy heiress in London , who decides to accompany him north . Unlike the first volume of Susan Ferrier's Marriage , this tale has no room for comedy of any sort . The heroine learns Gaelic and desperately ...
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... Highland imaginations have still some mysterious idea of inseparable union between lofty stature and a commanding character , strength of body and generosity of soul ; and the small share of imagination that Colonel Grant had was quite ...
... Highland imaginations have still some mysterious idea of inseparable union between lofty stature and a commanding character , strength of body and generosity of soul ; and the small share of imagination that Colonel Grant had was quite ...
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