Race, theology and revival: Scots philology and its contexts in the age of Pinkerton and Jamieson

Scottish Studies Review

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 20-33

  Kidd, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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