Companion to Scottish Literature

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).

• Notes on Contributors xiPreface xxiiAcknowledgements xxiv1 Introduction: What is Scottish Literature? 1Gerard CarruthersPart I: Periods 152 The First Millennium 17Dauvit Broun and Gerard Carruthers3 The Medieval Period 27Pamela King4 The Reformation 39David J. Parkinson5 The Seventeenth Century 52Alasdair A. MacDonald6 The Enlightenment 64Ronnie Young7 Literature in Gaelic I 77Duncan Sneddon and M. Pía Coira8 Romanticism 91Dafydd Moore9 The Scotch Novel 104Peter Garside10 The Victorian Period 116Kirstie Blair and Michael Shaw11 Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival 127Scott Lyall12 Contemporary and Post-Modern Scotland 140Timothy C. Baker13 Literature in Gaelic II 152Peter MackayPart II: Genres and Contexts 16514 The Early Book in Scotland 167Jeremy J. Smith15 Publishing in Scotland to 1800 180Rhona Brown16 Publishing in Scotland from 1800 192David Finkelstein17 Sentimental Literature 205Andrew Nash18 Jacobitism 218Daniel Cook19 Religion 233Linden Bicket20 Folkways 246Corey Gibson21 Mapping Murder — Places in Scottish Crime Writing 259Carol Baraniuk22 Children's Literature 271Sarah M. Dunnigan23 Scottish Drama and Theatre 286Ian Brown24 Gender and Sexuality 299Carole Jones25 Race and Ethnicity in Scottish Literature 311Joe Jackson26 Magazines, Devolution and Makars — the Institutions of Scottish Literature 324Eleanor Bell27 Diaspora 336Paul Malgrati28 Teaching Scottish Literature in the English Classroom 349Gillian Sargent29 Scottish Literature in the 21st Century and the New Media 363Craig LamontPart III: Writers 37730 Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas 379Nicola Royan31 Poets in the Age of James VI 393Kelsey Jackson Williams32 Women's Writing to 1700 406Sarah M. Dunnigan33 Robert Burns and the 18th Century Vernacular Revival 419Steve Newman34 Women's Writing, 1700—1900 432Ainsley McIntosh35 James Thomson 445Sandro Jung36 Alasdair A. MacDonald and Duncan Ban McIntyre 458Ronald Black37 Walter Scott 473Ian Duncan38 Thomas Carlyle and His Ideas 486Joanna Malecka39 Robert Louis Stevenson 498Robert P. Irvine40 Sorley MacLean 509Máire Ní Annracháin41 W.S. Graham 523Andrew McNeillie42 Kelman, Gray, Welsh and the New Urban Writing 538Anthony Jarrells43 Muriel Spark and the Invention of Identity 550David Goldie44 Edwin Morgan, Norman MacCaig and Iain Crichton Smith 561Matt McGuire45 Liz Lochhead and Jackie Kay 574Carla Rodríguez González46 Contemporary Poetry — Carol-Ann Duffy, Kathleen Jamie and Don Paterson 586Danny O'Connor47 Women's Writing, 1900—2020 598Fiona McCulloch48 Scottish Literature in Film 611John Caughie49 Timeline and Further Resources 624Moira HansenIndex 644