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The Complete Scottish Sketches of R.B. Cunninghame Graham: 'A Careless Enchantment'
Presents and sets in context all of Cunninghame Graham’s Scottish works, transcribed from their original sources.
The editors have approached their task, not as literary commentators, but as historians, in the hope of lending historical and political relevance to Graham’s writing career and works, setting him and them in the social, political, and literary context of their times.
All of the sketches in this anthology have been transcribed from the original sources. In some cases, there are textual and titular differences with those published in Graham’s anthologies, which showed his original intentions.
Almost every location of Graham’s sketches has been visited and investigated, and the editors have sought out individuals with local knowledge and insights, which hopefully lends depth and substance to his descriptions and the editors’ commentaries.
The editors have added copious footnotes to explain Graham’s more obscure allusions, and his use of the Scots language and colloquialisms.
R.B. Cunninghame Graham was a hugely influential figure in late 19th- and early 20th-century Scottish politics and literature. For the first time, his entire Scottish oeuvre has been compiled chronologically, from their original sources, into one volume, and set in their historical, cultural and social contexts. This volume highlights Graham’s writings on landscape, climate, history, local traditions, mythology, Scots dialect and social diversity – but also pays rare attention to his writings about Scots abroad.
The editors have approached their task, not as literary commentators, but as historians, in the hope of lending historical and political relevance to Graham’s writing career and works, setting him and them in the social, political, and literary context of their times.
All of the sketches in this anthology have been transcribed from the original sources. In some cases, there are textual and titular differences with those published in Graham’s anthologies, which showed his original intentions.
Almost every location of Graham’s sketches has been visited and investigated, and the editors have sought out individuals with local knowledge and insights, which hopefully lends depth and substance to his descriptions and the editors’ commentaries.
The editors have added copious footnotes to explain Graham’s more obscure allusions, and his use of the Scots language and colloquialisms.
R.B. Cunninghame Graham was a hugely influential figure in late 19th- and early 20th-century Scottish politics and literature. For the first time, his entire Scottish oeuvre has been compiled chronologically, from their original sources, into one volume, and set in their historical, cultural and social contexts. This volume highlights Graham’s writings on landscape, climate, history, local traditions, mythology, Scots dialect and social diversity – but also pays rare attention to his writings about Scots abroad.
352 pages, Hardcover
First published June 30, 2024
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R.B. Cunninghame Graham
99 books5 followersRobert Bontine Cunninghame Graham was a Scottish journalist, politician and adventurer who rode with the gauchos on cattle ranches in Argentina before serving as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP). He was the first-ever socialist member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; was a founder, and the first president, of the Scottish Labour Party; a founder of the National Party of Scotland in 1928; and the first president of the Scottish National Party in 1934.
His books and articles spanned history, biography, poetry, essays, politics, travel and seventeen collections of short stories or literary sketches. He also assisted Joseph Conrad with research for Nostromo.
There is a seat dedicated to Cunninghame Graham in the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh with the inscription: "R B 'Don Roberto' Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore and Ardoch, 1852–1936, A great storyteller".
His books and articles spanned history, biography, poetry, essays, politics, travel and seventeen collections of short stories or literary sketches. He also assisted Joseph Conrad with research for Nostromo.
There is a seat dedicated to Cunninghame Graham in the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh with the inscription: "R B 'Don Roberto' Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore and Ardoch, 1852–1936, A great storyteller".
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