Companion to Scottish Literature

Notes on Contributors xi

Preface xxii

Acknowledgements xxiv

1 Introduction: What is Scottish Literature? 1
Gerard Carruthers

Part I: Periods 15

2 The First Millennium 17
Dauvit Broun and Gerard Carruthers

3 The Medieval Period 27
Pamela King

4 The Reformation 39
David J. Parkinson

5 The Seventeenth Century 52
Alasdair A. MacDonald

6 The Enlightenment 64
Ronnie Young

7 Literature in Gaelic I 77
Duncan Sneddon and M. Pia Coira

8 Romanticism 91
Dafydd Moore

9 The Scotch Novel 104
Peter Garside

10 The Victorian Period 116
Kirstie Blair and Michael Shaw

11 Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival 127
Scott Lyall

12 Contemporary and Post-Modern Scotland 140
Timothy C. Baker

13 Literature in Gaelic II 152
Peter Mackay

Part II: Genres and Contexts 165

14 The Early Book in Scotland 167
Jeremy J. Smith

15 Publishing in Scotland to 1800 180
Rhona Brown

16 Publishing in Scotland from 1800 192
David Finkelstein

17 Sentimental Literature 205
Andrew Nash

18 Jacobitism 218
Daniel Cook

19 Religion 233
Linden Bicket

20 Folkways 246
Corey Gibson

21 Mapping Murder - Places in Scottish Crime Writing 259
Carol Baraniuk

22 Children's Literature 271
Sarah M. Dunnigan

23 Scottish Drama and Theatre 286
Ian Brown

24 Gender and Sexuality 299
Carole Jones

25 Race and Ethnicity in Scottish Literature 311
Joe Jackson

26 Magazines, Devolution and Makars - the Institutions of Scottish Literature 324
Eleanor Bell

27 Diaspora 336
Paul Malgrati

28 Teaching Scottish Literature in the English Classroom 349
Gillian Sargent

29 Scottish Literature in the 21st Century and the New Media 363
Craig Lamont

Part III: Writers 377

30 Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas 379
Nicola Royan

31 Poets in the Age of James VI 393
Kelsey Jackson Williams

32 Women's Writing to 1700 406
Sarah M. Dunnigan

33 Robert Burns and the 18th Century Vernacular Revival 419
Steve Newman

34 Women's Writing, 1700-1900 432
Ainsley McIntosh

35 James Thomson 445
Sandro Jung

36 Alasdair A. MacDonald and Duncan Ban McIntyre 458
Ronald Black

37 Walter Scott 473
Ian Duncan

38 Thomas Carlyle and His Ideas 486
Joanna Malecka

39 Robert Louis Stevenson 498
Robert P. Irvine

40 Sorley MacLean 509
Maire Ni Annrachain

41 W.S. Graham 523
Andrew McNeillie

42 Kelman, Gray, Welsh and the New Urban Writing 538
Anthony Jarrells

43 Muriel Spark and the Invention of Identity 550
David Goldie

44 Edwin Morgan, Norman MacCaig and Iain Crichton Smith 561
Matt McGuire

45 Liz Lochhead and Jackie Kay 574
Carla Rodriguez Gonzalez

46 Contemporary Poetry - Carol-Ann Duffy, Kathleen Jamie and Don Paterson 586
Danny O'Connor

47 Women's Writing, 1900-2020 598
Fiona McCulloch

48 Scottish Literature in Film 611
John Caughie

49 Timeline and Further Resources 624
Moira Hansen

Index 644

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Scottish literature guide; Scottish literature companion; Scottish literature essays; Scottish literature critical guide; Scottish literature criticism; Scottish literature contexts; Scottish literature themes; Scottish literature scholarship