Robert Burns wrote this famous satire on religious hypocrisy in 1785, but he did not include it in his first book Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786) or in any edition published in his life-time. This edition makes accessible for the first time the little locally-produced chapbook in which the poem was first printed, in 1789. The introduction discusses why the poem was written, the controversial background to the poem's first printed version, and the reasons for thinking the 1789 chapbook version was printed by John Wilson of Kilmarnock, who had printed Burns's first book three...

Robert Louis Stevenson's rousing seafaring classic.

"Fifteen men on a dead man's chest--
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum "

For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From young Jim Hawkins's first encounter with the sinister beggar Pew to the climactic battle with the most memorable villain in literature, Long John Silver, this novel has fired readers' imaginations for generations. A rousing tale of treachery, greed, and daring, Treasure Island continues to enthrall readers of all...

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...