A Companion to Scottish Literature

by Carruthers, Gerard

• ISBN13: 9781119651444
• ISBN10: 1119651441
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781119651536
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-01-03
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of the world’s leading experts in the field, this comprehensive resource provides the historical background of Scottish literature, highlights new critical approaches, and explores wider cultural and institutional contexts.

Dealing with texts in the languages of Scots, English, and Gaelic, the Companion offers modern perspectives on the historical milieux, thematic contexts and canonical writers of Scottish literature. Original essays apply the most up-to-date critical and scholarly analyses to a uniquely wide range of topics, such as Gaelic literature, national and diasporic writing, children’s literature, Scottish drama and theatre, gender and sexuality, and women’s writing. Critical readings examine William Dunbar, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark and Carol Ann Duffy, amongst others.

With full references and guidance for further reading, as well as numerous links to online resources, A Companion to Scottish Literature is essential reading for advanced students and scholars of Scottish literature, as well as academic and non-academic readers with an interest in the subject.

Author Biography

Gerard Carruthers is Francis Hutcheson Chair of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is author or editor of 22 books and more than 170 academic essays and articles. Professor Carruthers is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Advisor to the National Trust for Scotland on Burns and General Editor of the multi-volume Oxford University Press edition of the Collected Works of Robert Burns. Recent publications include the co-edited volumes 1820: Scottish Rebellion, essays on a nineteenth-century insurrection (John Donald, 2022) and Crooked Dividend: Essays on Muriel Spark (ASL, 2022).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

 

 

Introduction

 

1.  Introduction: What is Scottish Literature?

                    Gerard Carruthers

PART I: Periods

 

2. The First Millennium

                     Dauvit Broun & Gerard Carruthers

3. The Medieval Period

                     Pamela King

4. The Reformation

                      David J. Parkinson

5. The Seventeenth Century

                     Alasdair Macdonald

6. The Enlightenment

                     Ronnie Young

7. Literature in Gaelic I

                     Maria Coira & Duncan Sneddon

8. Romanticism

                     Dafydd Moore

9. The Scotch Novel

                      Peter Garside

10. The Victorian Period

                      Kirstie Blair and Michael Shaw

11. Hugh MacDiarmid & the Scottish Literary Revival

                      Scott Lyall

12. Contemporary and Post-Modern Scotland

                       Timothy Baker

13. Literature in Gaelic II

                        Peter Mackay

 

PART II: Genres & Contexts

 

14. The Early Book in Scotland

                        Jeremy Smith

15. Publishing in Scotland to 1800

                        Rhona Brown

16. Publishing in Scotland from 1800

                        David Finkelstein

17. Sentimental Literature

                        Andrew Nash

18. Jacobitism

                         Daniel Cook

19. Religion

                         Linden Bicket

20. Folkways

                         Corey Gibson

21. Mapping Murder – Places in Scottish Crime Writing

                          Carol Baraniuk

22. Children’s Literature

                           Sarah Dunnigan

23. Scottish Drama and Theatre

                           Ian Brown

24. Gender & Sexuality

                           Carole Jones

25. Race & Ethnicity in Scottish Literature

                           Joe Jackson

26. Magazines, Devolution & Makars – the Institutions of Scottish Literature

                           Eleanor Bell

27. Diaspora

                          Paul Malgrati

28.  Teaching Scottish Literature in the English Classroom

                           Gillian Sargent

29.  Scottish Literature in the 21st Century & the New Media

                            Craig Lamont

PART III: Writers

 

30. Henryson, Dunbar & Douglas

                            Nicola Royan

31. Poets in the Age of James VI

                            Kelsey Williams

32. Women’s Writing to 1700

                            Sarah Dunnigan

33. Robert Burns & the 18th century vernacular revival

                            Steve Newman

34. Women’s Writing, 1700-1900

                            Ainsley McIntosh

35. James Thomson

                            Sandro Jung

36. Alasdair Macdonald & Duncan Ban McIntyre

                            Ronald Black

37. Walter Scott

                            Ian Duncan

38. Thomas Carlyle & his ideas

                            Joanna Malecka

39. Robert Louis Stevenson

                            Robert Irvine

40. Sorley MacLean

                            Maire Ni Annrachain

41.  W.S. Graham

                            Andrew McNeillie

42. Kelman, Gray, Welsh & the new urban writing

                         Tony Jarrells

43. Muriel Spark & the invention of identity

                         David Goldie

44. Edwin Morgan, Norman MacCaig & Iain Crichton Smith

                        Matt McGuire

45. Liz Lochhead & Jackie Kay

                        Carla Rodriguez  

46. Contemporary Poetry – Carol-Ann Duffy, Kathleen Jamie & Don Paterson

                         Danny O’Connor

47. Women’s Writing, 1900-2020

                          Fiona McCulloch

48. Scottish Literature in Film

                          John Caughie

49. Timeline and Additional Resources

                          Moira Hansen

 

 

Index