Kenneth Millard
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198122258
- eISBN:
- 9780191671395
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198122258.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
John Davidson's early writings are characterized by their exploration of a Scottish cultural heritage, which initially he seems to have endorsed. But Scottish literature alone became increasingly ...
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John Davidson's early writings are characterized by their exploration of a Scottish cultural heritage, which initially he seems to have endorsed. But Scottish literature alone became increasingly insufficient for Davidson as his talent and ambition developed. The Scottish poet's aversion to the austerity and self-denial and independent thought was almost programmatic. Davidson's move to London in 1890 is a watershed in his progress at which ostensibly he abandoned Scotland as a source of imaginative inspiration. However, the poverty of his literary career intensified the isolation he felt as a Scot in Edwardian London. This chapter tries to show that Davidson's sense of Scottish identity helped to sustain him in this creative enterprise despite public indifference, and argues that his cultural displacement characterizes him as perhaps unique among Edwardians, as one who anticipates some of the innovations of the Modernists.Less
John Davidson's early writings are characterized by their exploration of a Scottish cultural heritage, which initially he seems to have endorsed. But Scottish literature alone became increasingly insufficient for Davidson as his talent and ambition developed. The Scottish poet's aversion to the austerity and self-denial and independent thought was almost programmatic. Davidson's move to London in 1890 is a watershed in his progress at which ostensibly he abandoned Scotland as a source of imaginative inspiration. However, the poverty of his literary career intensified the isolation he felt as a Scot in Edwardian London. This chapter tries to show that Davidson's sense of Scottish identity helped to sustain him in this creative enterprise despite public indifference, and argues that his cultural displacement characterizes him as perhaps unique among Edwardians, as one who anticipates some of the innovations of the Modernists.
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley and Sunil Sharma (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198068334
- eISBN:
- 9780199080441
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198068334.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
More than a century ago, Atiya Fyzee, a Muslim woman of the renowned Tyabji clan, set out from colonial Bombay to study in Edwardian London. As she rode the steamboat, she began writing her daily ...
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More than a century ago, Atiya Fyzee, a Muslim woman of the renowned Tyabji clan, set out from colonial Bombay to study in Edwardian London. As she rode the steamboat, she began writing her daily experiences in a diary that would later appear as serialized entries in an Urdu women’s magazine published from the Punjab. Despite the magazine’s small circulation at the time, Atiya’s travelogue drew enough attention and gave the fledgling author her first taste of fame. In the years to come, she also became well known for her friendship with Maulana Shibli Numani and Muhammad Iqbal, two of South Asia’s most prominent Muslim intellectuals. Atiya and her husband Samuel Rahamin gained popularity worldwide in the early twentieth century in the fields of music, dance, theatre, the visual arts, and literature. Atiya Fyzee became a key figure in the cultural and intellectual history of South Asia. Atiya’s legend, sometimes contradictory and often exoticized, was formed in the last years of her life when she lived in Karachi after the Partition. This is a fascinating account of a Muslim women’s experience of ‘everyday’ in Edwardian Britain.Less
More than a century ago, Atiya Fyzee, a Muslim woman of the renowned Tyabji clan, set out from colonial Bombay to study in Edwardian London. As she rode the steamboat, she began writing her daily experiences in a diary that would later appear as serialized entries in an Urdu women’s magazine published from the Punjab. Despite the magazine’s small circulation at the time, Atiya’s travelogue drew enough attention and gave the fledgling author her first taste of fame. In the years to come, she also became well known for her friendship with Maulana Shibli Numani and Muhammad Iqbal, two of South Asia’s most prominent Muslim intellectuals. Atiya and her husband Samuel Rahamin gained popularity worldwide in the early twentieth century in the fields of music, dance, theatre, the visual arts, and literature. Atiya Fyzee became a key figure in the cultural and intellectual history of South Asia. Atiya’s legend, sometimes contradictory and often exoticized, was formed in the last years of her life when she lived in Karachi after the Partition. This is a fascinating account of a Muslim women’s experience of ‘everyday’ in Edwardian Britain.
