Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Introduction: What is Scottish Literature?Gerard CarruthersPART I: Periods2. The First MillenniumDauvit Broun & Gerard Carruthers3. The Medieval PeriodPamela King4. The ReformationDavid J. Parkinson5. The Seventeenth CenturyAlasdair Macdonald6. The EnlightenmentRonnie Young7. Literature in Gaelic IMaria Coira & Duncan Sneddon8. RomanticismDafydd Moore9. The Scotch NovelPeter Garside10. The Victorian PeriodKirstie Blair and Michael Shaw11. Hugh MacDiarmid & the Scottish Literary RevivalScott Lyall12. Contemporary and Post-Modern ScotlandTimothy Baker13. Literature in Gaelic IIPeter MackayPART II: Genres & Contexts14. The Early Book in ScotlandJeremy Smith15. Publishing in Scotland to 1800Rhona Brown16. Publishing in Scotland from 1800David Finkelstein17. Sentimental LiteratureAndrew Nash18. JacobitismDaniel Cook19. ReligionLinden Bicket20. FolkwaysCorey Gibson21. Mapping Murder -- Places in Scottish Crime WritingCarol Baraniuk22. Children's LiteratureSarah Dunnigan23. Scottish Drama and TheatreIan Brown24. Gender & SexualityCarole Jones25. Race & Ethnicity in Scottish LiteratureJoe Jackson26. Magazines, Devolution & Makars -- the Institutions of Scottish LiteratureEleanor Bell27. DiasporaPaul Malgrati28. Teaching Scottish Literature in the English ClassroomGillian Sargent29. Scottish Literature in the 21st Century & the New MediaCraig LamontPART III: Writers30. Henryson, Dunbar & DouglasNicola Royan31. Poets in the Age of James VIKelsey Williams32. Women's Writing to 1700Sarah Dunnigan33. Robert Burns & the 18th century vernacular revivalSteve Newman34. Women's Writing, 1700-1900Ainsley McIntosh35. James ThomsonSandro Jung36. Alasdair Macdonald & Duncan Ban McIntyreRonald Black37. Walter ScottIan Duncan38. Thomas Carlyle & his ideasJoanna Malecka39. Robert Louis StevensonRobert Irvine40. Sorley MacLeanMaire Ni Annrachain41. W.S. GrahamAndrew McNeillie42. Kelman, Gray, Welsh & the new urban writingTony Jarrells43. Muriel Spark & the invention of identityDavid Goldie44. Edwin Morgan, Norman MacCaig & Iain Crichton SmithMatt McGuire45. Liz Lochhead & Jackie KayCarla Rodriguez46. Contemporary Poetry -- Carol-Ann Duffy, Kathleen Jamie & Don PatersonDanny O'Connor47. Women's Writing, 1900-2020Fiona McCulloch48. Scottish Literature in FilmJohn Caughie49. Timeline and Additional ResourcesMoira HansenIndex
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).