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Albyn; or, Scotland and the future

Chapter 11: FROM THE REVIEWS
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An essayist argues that a nascent Scottish Renaissance, starting in literature and extending into politics and religion, seeks to restore suppressed national forms across language, art, and public life. He links the rise of nationalist and socialist currents, demands for Home Rule with fiscal autonomy, and the growth of Catholicism and Irish immigration to a wider cultural revival, advocates reviving Scots and Gaelic and criticizes prevailing journalistic, religious, and literary influences that have promoted anglicization, while urging realistic, sometimes militant, reorientation to reclaim distinct Scottish cultural and political autonomy.

FROM THE REVIEWS

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