This is the first volume in a new series of the leading international journal in its field. It opens with a symposium on the Present State of Scottish Literary Studies with contributions from prominent Scottish, American, and Canadian scholars. The topics of other articles include the continuity of Scottish literature, an 18th-century Scottish ballad collector, the first printer of The Merry Muses of Caledonia, "Scots wha hae" on the Afro-New York Stage, Lockhart's Memoir of Walter Scott, and an unrecorded Robert Burns poetic manuscript. Studies in Scottish Literature was founded and edited...

This issue combines articles on Scottish literature with a special symposium section on "Spatial Humanities and Scottish Literature." Guest-edited and introduced by Michael Gavin and Eric Gidal, the symposium includes contributions on mapping Enlightenment Edinburgh (by Murray Pittock and Craig Lamont), on mapping Thomas Pennant's travels (by Alex Deans and Nigel Leask), on Scott's Redgauntlet (by Christopher Donaldson, Ian Gregory, and others), and on topic-modelling for exploring 18th- and 19th-century Scottish history and culture (by Gavin and Gidal). Full-length articles in the issue...

With this issue, after many years of annual publication, Studies in Scottish Literature begins pubishing two issues a year. Founded in 1963, as the first refereed scholarly journal in its field, it remains a leading international forum for scholarly discussion and research, in a field of growing iimportance. Edited by Patrick Scott and Tony Jarrells, of the University of South Carolina, with the support of a distinguished advisory board, the journal publishes articles on all periods of Scottish literature. The issue opens with Murray Pittock's W. Ormiston Roy Memorial Lecture, "Who Wrote the...