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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... Hugh would reason with all the inaccuracy of enthusiasm , and speak with all the natural eloquence of strong feeling . Hugh possessed in a high degree that whimsical combination of shrewdness , simplicity , and humour , which ...
... Hugh would reason with all the inaccuracy of enthusiasm , and speak with all the natural eloquence of strong feeling . Hugh possessed in a high degree that whimsical combination of shrewdness , simplicity , and humour , which ...
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... Hugh was to make a journey to the low country about some trifling business . A journey undertaken by Hugh in the depth of winter could be about no trifling business . He immediately connected it with the letter , the illness of the Lady ...
... Hugh was to make a journey to the low country about some trifling business . A journey undertaken by Hugh in the depth of winter could be about no trifling business . He immediately connected it with the letter , the illness of the Lady ...
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... Hugh . " Shame on me ! " Norman was engaged in writing a card at this time ; but he could still perceive the course of Hugh's feelings . He therefore called him aside , and began to talk to him , in Gaelic , on the late occurrences , in ...
... Hugh . " Shame on me ! " Norman was engaged in writing a card at this time ; but he could still perceive the course of Hugh's feelings . He therefore called him aside , and began to talk to him , in Gaelic , on the late occurrences , in ...
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