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Article: The Scottish Invention of English Literature.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2000
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The Scottish Invention of English Literature. Ed. by ROBERT CRAWFORD. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xii + 259 pp. $59.95.
It is not the thesis of The Scottish Invention of English Literature that Scots wrote the foundational or typical texts that constitute English Literature. Nor is it that they were the first to publish criticism of English vernacular literature, although only one of the book's contributors (Linda Ferreira-Buckley) is prepared to point out that Abraham Fraunce, Thomas Blount, and George Puttenham (among others) got there long before the mainly eighteenth-century Scots under scrutiny. The distinguishing ...