Towns and Town Life in Scotland
Vivre la Ville en Écosse
GRAATÉditeur : Presses universitaires François-Rabelais
Lieu d’édition : Tours
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 1 juin 2017
Collection : GRAAT
Année d’édition : 2005
Nombre de pages : 328
Présentation
In the modem western world urbanisation has often been both the companion and corollary of industrialization and no more so than in Britain. Here the population changed dramatically during the long nineteenth century, transforming parts of England and Scotland into some of the most industrial and urban societies in the world. Scottish society was particularly affected by this process. The growth of towns or cities, and the radical overhaul of the balance of population between the rural and urban worlds that this implies, is one of the most sensitive indicators of the emergence of a modem industrial state.
Nor surprisingly then, Scottish towns are seen as central to any understanding of modern Scotland. For some they have an identity all of their own which distinguishes them from towns in other parts of the United Kingdom. Indeed it is to these same towns that political scientists have turned to explain why the Scots have never lost their sense of national identity, despite Scotland’s “stateless nation” status since 1707.
This GRAAT conference brought together contributions from a wide range approaches to the Scottish urban experience: from history to literature, architecture and the fine arts. They focus on three main perspectives. Firstly we have images of the city and an exploration of how these became part of the Scottish mind-set. A second perspective concentrated on the Scottish city during the nineteenth century. Finally, there is the twentieth and twenty-first century “revival” with its distinctive avenues of development. All in all, a recognition of the fascination which the distinctiveness of urban life has exerted over the Scottish people as much as a tribute to the renewed dynamism of Scottish studies in France.
Sommaire
Rosie Findlay et Tri Tran
Towns and town life in Scotland: introductory remarksI. Images of the city: the city in the psyche of the Scots
Bernard Sellin
Aux origines de la ville littéraire : le roman écossais et la ville au début du XXe siècleDaniele Berton Charriere
The Steamie ou le Glasgow d'antan (Ier mai 1987 ; Tony Roper)Fabienne Moine
“Poèmes et vie d'Ellen Johnston, ‘factory girl’ à Glasgow : de la détresse industrielle à la poétisation de la condition ouvrière”Marion Amblard
Édimbourg vue par Alexander Nasmyth : une représentation de l'identité écossaise au début du dix-neuvième siècleII. Life in the Scottish victorian city: historical explorations
Christian Auer
« The Glasgow System » : Glasgow et la lutte contre la prostitution à l'époque victorienneChristian Civardi
Dundee : les paradoxes d'une cité d'ouvrières (1870-1930)Win Hayes
The development of swimming facilities in Victorian and Edwardian Scotland: Glasgow and EdinburghIII. Present development of towns and cities as a political, social and economic problem
Gilles Leydier
Glasgow réinventée ?Philippe Brillet
Édimbourg et Belfast, deux quasi-capitales entre réalités économiques et rêves de puissanceCarine Berberi
Les villes au cœur de la politique de l’exécutif en ÉcosseLe texte seul est utilisable sous licence Licence OpenEdition Books. Les autres éléments (illustrations, fichiers annexes importés) sont « Tous droits réservés », sauf mention contraire.
