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The Kailyard school of Scottish fiction (1880-1914) was developed in the last decades of the 19th century as a reaction against what was seen as increasingly coarse writing representing Scottish life complete with all its blemishes. It has been considered to be an overly sentimental representation of rural life,〔D. Daiches ed., ''The Penguin Companion to Literature: 1'' (1971) p. 288〕 cleansed of real problems and issues that affected the people, but proved for a time extremely popular.〔I. Ousby ed., ''The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English'' (1995) p. 503〕 Its name derives ultimately from the Scots "kailyaird" or "kailyard", which means a small cabbage patch (see kale) or kitchen garden, usually adjacent to a cottage;〔Cuddon, J. A. (1977) ''A Dictionary of Literary Terms''. London: André Deutsch; p. 343〕 but more immediately from Ian Maclaren's 1894 book ''Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush'' whose title alludes to the Jacobite song "There grows a bonnie brier bush in our Kailyard".〔Macdonald, A. M., ed. (1972) ''Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers; p. 716〕 Writers of the Kailyard school included J. M. Barrie (better known for his later creation of Peter Pan), Ian Maclaren, J. J. Bell, George MacDonald, Gabriel Setoun, and S. R. Crockett. Barrie's ''Auld Licht Idylls'' (1888), ''A Window in Thrums'' (1889), and ''The Little Minister'' (1891); and Crockett's ''The Stickit Minister'' (1893) are among the more lasting products of the school.〔D. Daiches ed., ''The Penguin Companion to Literature: 1'' (1971) p. 288 and p. 126〕 ==Opposition== George Douglas Brown aimed his 1901 novel ''The House with the Green Shutters'' explicitly against what he called "the sentimental slop"〔D. Daiches ed., ''The Penguin Companion to Literature: 1'' (1971) p. 157〕 of the Kailyard school. Much of Hugh MacDiarmid's work, and the Scottish Renaissance associated with him, was a reaction against Kailyardism.〔Andrew Nash, ''Kailyard and Scottish Literature'' (2007) p. 15〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kailyard school」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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