Introduction: What is Scottish literature? / Gerard Carruthers -- The First millennium / Dauvit Broun & Gerard Carruthers -- The medieval period / Pamela King -- The Reformation / David J. Parkinson -- The seventeenth century / Alasdair Macdonald -- The Enlightenment / Ronnie Young -- Literature in Gaelic I / Maria Coira & Duncan Sneddon -- Romanticism / Dafydd Moore -- The Scotch novel / Peter Garside -- The Victorian period / Kirstie Blair and Michael Shaw -- Hugh MacDiarmid & the Scottish literary revival / Scott Lyall -- Contemporary and post-modern Scotland / Timothy Baker -- Literature in Gaelic II / Peter Mackay -- The early book in Scotland / Jeremy Smith -- Publishing in Scotland to 1800 / Rhona Brown -- Publishing in Scotland from 1800 / David Finkelstein -- Sentimental literature / Andrew Nash -- Jacobitism / Daniel Cook -- Religion / Linden Bicket -- Folkways / Corey Gibson -- Mapping murder : places in Scottish crime writing / Carol Baraniuk -- Children's literature / Sarah Dunnigan -- Scottish drama and theatre / Ian Brown -- Gender & sexuality / Carole Jones -- Race & ethnicity in Scottish literature / Joe Jackson -- Magazines, devolution & makars : the institutions of Scottish literature / Eleanor Bell -- Diaspora / Paul Malgrati -- Teaching Scottish literature in the English classroom / Gillian Sargent -- Scottish literature in the 21st century & the new media / Craig Lamont -- Henryson, Dunbar & Douglas / Nicola Royan -- Poets in the age of James VI / Kelsey Williams -- Women's writing to 1700 / Sarah Dunnigan -- Robert Burns & the 18th century vernacular revival / Steve Newman -- Women's writing, 1700-1900 / Ainsley McIntosh -- James Thomson / Sandro Jung -- Alasdair Macdonald & Duncan Ban McIntyre / Ronald Black -- Walter Scott / Ian Duncan -- Thomas Carlyle & his ideas / Joanna Malecka -- Robert Louis Stevenson / Robert Irvine -- Sorley MacLean / Maire Ni Annrachain -- W.S. Graham / Andrew McNeillie -- Kelman, Gray, Welsh & the new urban writing / Tony Jarrells -- Muriel Spark & the invention of identity / David Goldie -- Edwin Morgan, Norman MacCaig & Iain Crichton Smith / Matt McGuire -- Liz Lochhead & Jackie / Kay Carla Rodriguez -- Contemporary poetry : Carol-Ann Duffy, Kathleen Jamie & Don Paterson / Danny O'Connor -- Women's writing, 1900-2020 / Fiona McCulloch -- Scottish literature in film / John Caughie -- Timeline and additional resources / Moira Hansen.
Summary:
"The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature is a comprehensive guide to the critical consideration of Scottish Literature through its entire history applying the most up to date critical, cultural and scholarly analyses of that literature. It aims to provide the best introductory but also advanced critical gateway to the subject. The essays each of 7,000 words in length are all by experts in the particular areas. As well as a set of end-notes, each will also feature an annotated Further Reading section of six key critical items and authoritative website addresses and other digital resources all-inclusive within essay word-length. The three sections of the Companion are designed to be comprehensive of modern perspectives on the area of Scottish Literature: historical crucial generic, thematic and also historical contexts as these are currently seen by modern literary criticism; and canonical writers. The introduction by the editor will both present and problematize canonicity, discussing the challenges raised in Scottish Literature by turns towards theory, book-history and digitality. Â This proposed publication is intended both as a historical guide to Scottish Literature and as a compendium of the most up to date critical approaches to the area. Comprehensively, it covers Scottish Literature from the 13th to the 21st centuries, with attention to the languages of Scots, English and Gaelic (as well as some consideration of Latin, French, Anglo-Saxon and other minor' linguistic contexts that necessarily inform a broad understanding of Scottish Literature). The volume ranges across periods, writers and special hot-spot topics which around which Scottish writing has congregated. The chapters will be informed, often, by literary theory, book-history and wider cultural and institutional contexts in keeping with the broad thrusts of literary scholarship in the early twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 109
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