Scottish National Humour

Scottish National Humour

S.R.Crockett

Contemporary Review (London)

Article by S.R. Crockett published in the Contemporary Review, April 1895. A robust defence of Scottish humour and its literary tradition, arguing that contempt for it betrays either conceit or ignorance. Directly relevant to the Kailyard controversy: Crockett's public assertion of the value of Scottish national character in fiction preceded and in part provoked the critical campaign against the Kailyard school. The article was subsequently revised and republished as a chapter in Raiderland (1904) under the title 'What We Say There and How We Say It' (MAG-176).

April 1895

Contemporary Review (London)

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