|
|
Kailyard School| Name applied in derision to the sentimental school of Scots novelists of which J M Barrie, Ian Maclaren (1850–1907), and S R Crockett were the leading members. The term was taken from the opening line of a Jacobite song, ‘There grows a bonnie brier bush in our kailyard’, from which Ian Maclaren had borrowed the title of his popular novel Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush (1894). |
| A counterblast to the idealized pictures of Scottish rural life drawn in the works of the Kailyard School was the sordid realism of The House with the Green Shutters (1901) by George Douglas Brown. |
How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
?Sign in  |
|---|
|
|
|
| Mentioned in | ? | | References in periodicals archive | ? |
|
Hutchinson browser | ? |
|
Full browser | ? |
|---|
| While more recent scholarship acknowledges the cultural elitism that informs much criticism of kailyard literature, its sentimental and historically inaccurate representations of Scotland are seen as powerful tools in the construction of national identity (see, for example, Gifford, Dunnigan and MacGillivray 324; Wade 51-54; Cook 1053-1073). And very successful he was, too, self-satisfiedly seeing himself as in the direct Dissenting line of the Reverend George Gilfillan (1813-1878), pontificating weekly in the persona of Claudius Clear on the merits and demerits of the latest wares on the book market, serving up nourishing bowls of thick Kailyard soup sentimentality, as surely behoved one who was the friend and biographer of Ian MacLaren, the perpetrator of the best-selling novel Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush. They brought back considerable assets, whether in cash or experience of a wider world than the kailyard or Glasgow tenement. |
|
|