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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... round her . One night she dreamed of seeing him with the claymore of Macalbin ; the next , all Macalbin's sons passed before her , and last came Norman , led by the Lady . When any very impressive vision had blest her slumbers , the ...
... round her . One night she dreamed of seeing him with the claymore of Macalbin ; the next , all Macalbin's sons passed before her , and last came Norman , led by the Lady . When any very impressive vision had blest her slumbers , the ...
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... round a fearful scanning glance , for censure and suffrage , afraid to look manfully round . - Even then , vanity found it more easy to affirm that the great sun revolved round this little O , the earth , than to admit that the splendid ...
... round a fearful scanning glance , for censure and suffrage , afraid to look manfully round . - Even then , vanity found it more easy to affirm that the great sun revolved round this little O , the earth , than to admit that the splendid ...
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... round , and see not one , but only six , of Albin's blood or lineage , when I have seen - but no matter what the likes of me have seen , since you , Lady , -but it is indeed a long time - threescore and ten years ! There was no stucco ...
... round , and see not one , but only six , of Albin's blood or lineage , when I have seen - but no matter what the likes of me have seen , since you , Lady , -but it is indeed a long time - threescore and ten years ! There was no stucco ...
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