Tom Nairn sets the tone for this feature on Gunn with his trenchant essay, Scottish Identity, a Cause Unwon, which is placed in wider context by Bernard Crick’s article A Tale of Four Nations on identity issues throughout the UK; Gunn’s nephew, Diarmid Gunn, traces the changing critical orthodoxies on Gunn over the years. There’s Neil Gunn and the Criticism of T S Eliot by Richard Price, and Socialism and Self-determination in the City Novels of Neil Gunn by Margery McCulloch and Neil MacCormick looks at Neil Gunn and nationalism in a unique memoir.
Tom Nairn sets the tone for this feature on Gunn with his trenchant essay, Scottish Identity, a Cause Unwon, which is placed in wider context by Bernard Crick’s article A Tale of Four Nations on identity issues throughout the UK; Gunn’s nephew, Diarmid Gunn, traces the changing critical orthodoxies on Gunn over the years. There’s Neil Gunn and the Criticism of T S Eliot by Richard Price, and Socialism and Self-determination in the City Novels of Neil Gunn by Margery McCulloch and Neil MacCormick looks at Neil Gunn and nationalism in a unique memoir.