Celtic Connections

Willy Maley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Nation, State and Empire in English Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare to Milton (2003) and Muriel Spark for Starters (2008). He has also co-edited Shakespeare and Wales: From the Marches to the Assembly (2010); The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark (2010); and This England, That Shakespeare: New Angles on Englishness and the Bard (2010).Alison O’Malley-Younger is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sunderland and co-director of the North East Irish Culture Network. She has co-edited Representing Ireland: Past, Present and Future (2005); Essays on Modern Irish Literature (2007); No Country for Old Men: Fresh Perspectives on Irish Literature (2008); and Ireland at War and Peace (2011).

• Contents: Willy Maley/Alison O’Malley-Younger: Introduction: Twilight to Tiger – John Strachan: Charles Robert Maturin, Roman Catholicism and Melmoth the Wanderer – Alison O’Malley-Younger: Doctors and Devils: Diagnosing Racial Degeneracy in Stevenson’s Gothic Fiction – Lauren Clark: Second Cities of Empire: Celtic Consumerism Exhibited – Masaya Shimokusu: ‘True poetic comrades’: Mineko Matsumura and the Reception of Fiona Macleod in Japan – Willy Maley/Niall O’Gallagher: Coming Clean about the Red and the Green: Celtic Communism in MacLean, MacDiarmid and MacLean Again – Deirdre O’Byrne: ‘My ways are my own’: Female, Family and Farm in Hanna Bell’s December Bride – Martyn Colebrook: ‘There is something narcotic in watching a war unfold on your doorstep, knowing all the while it can’t hurt you’: Liam McIlvanney’s All the Colours of the Town – Emily A. Ravenscroft/James Mollison: Macbeth in Maghaberry: Corrupting Power Relations with the Scottish Play in a Northern Irish Prison – Stefanie Lehner/Cillian McGrattan: The Confidence Game: Rebranding Irish and Scottish Cultures.