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The Complete Scottish Sketches of R.B. Cunninghame Graham : 'A Careless Enchantment' - Lachlan Munro

The Complete Scottish Sketches of R.B. Cunninghame Graham

'A Careless Enchantment'

By: Lachlan Munro (Editor), W.R.B Cunninghame Graham (Editor)

Hardcover | 30 June 2024

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Cunninghame Graham was a famous and hugely influential figure in late 19th and early 20th century Scottish politics and literature. He published 34 books during his lifetime, equally divided between histories (mostly of South America), and anthologies of his impressionistic sketches of South America, Morocco, and Scotland, the large majority of which had been published previously in literary magazines between 1896 and 1933.

For the first time, the editors have compiled his entire Scottish oeuvre chronologically, into one volume, and set them in their historical and social contexts, which explores and contextualises the works themselves, and traces Graham's development as a much-admired literary artist and social documentarist. One of the editors is a Cunninghame Graham family member, and the family historian, who has provided insights and peculiar details, unavailable to previous biographers, which hopefully provides added depth and understanding to Graham's works.

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I cannot overstate how important this collection is to our appreciation of my great-great-uncle as a writer, as a Scot, and as a man.

--James Jauncey, author of Don Roberto: the Adventure of Being Cunninghame Graham

Read together, these Scottish sketches provide a remarkable overview of Graham's literary, political and personal development; moreover, the editors' explication of the historical context of his writings and the evolution of his literary style allows readers to connect this iconoclastic author to the major historical changes he experienced across his lifetime.

--Jennifer Hayward, Adolfo Ib??ez University

This is a work of immense archival scholarship, more than adequate and apt for a readership of both scholars and anyone curious about Scotland, literary modernism and modern British, European and world politics and cultural history. Just as importantly, the book is also immensely lucid, readable and compelling and has all the character and urgency and relevance of the author - Cunninghame Graham - himself.

-- "Alan Riach, University of Glasgow"

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