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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.
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).
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
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
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
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