Scottish Literature In English and Scots

by Gifford, Douglas; Dunnigan, Sarah

• ISBN13: 9780748608256
• ISBN10: 0748608257
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-26
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

This substantial new volume is a stimulating yet in-depth introduction to Scottish literature in English and Scots. From medieval to modern, the entire range of literature is introduced, examined and explored. The volume looks at Scottish literature in six period sections: Early Scottish Literature, Eighteenth-Century, The Age of Scott, Victorian and Edwardian, The Twentieth-Century Scottish Literary Renaissance, and Scottish Literature since 1945. This volume is part of the series on Scottish Language and Literature, Douglas Gifford, General Editor.

Table of Contents

How to use this book	vii
Section 1: Early Scottish Literature
Literary Roots: Medieval Poetry	3	(13)
Robert Henryson and William Dunbar	16	(16)
Early Scottish Drama: Ane Satyre and Philotus	32	(16)
Renaissance Poetry: The Jacobean Period	48	(19)
The Ballads	67	(16)
Widening the Range 1	83	(22)
Section 2: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Literature
Enlightenment and Vernacular	105	(14)
Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson and the Vernacular Tradition	119	(27)
Robert Burns	146	(24)
Tobias Smollett: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker	170	(12)
Widening the Range 2	182	(11)
Section 3: Scottish Literature in the Age of Scott
The Age of Walter Scott	193	(8)
Scott and Scotland	201	(34)
Scott's Waverley	235	(19)
Susan Ferrier: Marriage	254	(12)
John Galt: The Entail	266	(22)
James Hogg: The, Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified, Sinner	288	(20)
Widening the Range 3	308	(13)
Section 4: Victorian and Edwardian Scottish Literature
Scottish Literature in the Victorian and Edwardian Era	321	(12)
George MacDonald: Phantastes	333	(16)
James Young Geddes, John Davidson and Scottish Poetry	349	(30)
James Thomson: The City of Dreadful Night	379	(23)
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Merry Men, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Master of Ballantrae	402	(32)
Margaret Oliphant: Kirsteen	434	(13)
George Douglas Brown: The House with the Green Shutters	447	(14)
J. M. Barrie and the Scottish Theatre	461	(11)
Widening the Range 4	472	(33)
Section 5: The Twentieth-Century Scottish Literary Renaissance
A Twentieth-Century Scottish Renaissance?	505	(11)
Hugh MacDiarmid, Edwiri Muir-arid Poetry in the Inter-War Period	516	(25)
Opening the Doors: Fiction by Women 1911-47	541	(24)
The Poetry of William Soutar	565	(16)
Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Eric Linklater	581	(38)
James Bridie and the Scottish Theatre	619	(36)
The Poetry of Sorley MacLean	655	(16)
The Epic Fiction of Neil Gunn	671	(32)
Widening the Range 5	703	(18)
Section 6: Scottish Literature since 1945
Decline and Revival: Modern Scottish Literature	721	(16)
Scottish Poetry after 1945	737	(57)
Modern Scottish Drama	794	(40)
Scottish Fiction since 1945 I: Continuity, Despair and Change	834	(65)
Scottish Fiction since 1945 II: Despair Change and, Hope	899	(82)
Widening the Range 6	981	(245)
Section 7: Reading Lists
General Further Reading	1005	(5)
Section 1	1010	(27)
Section 2	1037	(13)
Section 3	1050	(20)
Section 4	1070	(24)
Section 5	1094	(32)
Section 6	1126	(87)
Section 8: Resources and Connections
Publications	1213	(6)
Television and Audio Resources	1219	(3)
Places of Literary Interest	1222	(1)
Festivals and Events	1223	(1)
Libraries and Archive Materials	1224	(1)
Literacy Societies	1224	(1)
Writer's Groups	1225	(1)
Authorial and Editorial Credits	1226	(3)
Titles Index	1229	(30)
Names Index	1259