Imagined Worlds

The Author: Alan Freeman teaches literature in English at Yeditepe University in Istanbul. He has taught at the University of Edinburgh and Napier University in his native Scotland, and has written on various aspects of modern Scottish literature.

«On the whole, then, students of Scottish literature will feel grateful to Freeman for fostering the re-introduction of writers like the Findlaters into the Scottish literary canon, or rather, for suggesting, in line with other scholars interested in Scottish women writers, ways in which this canon can be redefined so as to make their inclusion not only possible but necessary. It is therefore to be hoped that Freeman's 'Imagined Worlds' will stimulate more detailed investigations into the fictional worlds of Jacob, the Findlaters, Carswell, Moon, Muir, and Shepherd.» (Silvia Mergenthal, Anglia, Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie)

• Contents: Fiction by Scottish women – Inventing tradition – Romantic irony – Novels for the new age – Heroines without heroes – Modernism and Scotland – From sentimental and domestic fiction to innovation and feminism.