R.D.S. Jack is Emeritus Professor of Medieval and Scottish Literature at Edinburgh University. He has written widely on Scottish and Comparative literature. His earlier book on Barrie, The Road to the Never Land, has recently been reprinted by Zeticula.

”As the title suggests, the mode of this monograph is fairly confrontational. […] This analysis of Barrie’s Victorian years and literary apprenticeship […] presents a more strategic, ambitious and self-aware writer. It is, however, also a book laying the ground for further debate.” - Glenda Norquay, Liverpool John Moores University, in: Scottish Literary Review, Vol. 40.2, pp. 199-201

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionThe Critical MythFilling the Research Gaps: Beyond Freud and the KailyardFilling the Textual Gaps I: “Kailyard” Prose 1877–90Filling the Textual Gaps II: “Kailyard” Drama 1877–93The Little MinisterTo The Never Land and Beyond: A Dramatic RouteTo The Never Land and Beyond: A Novel RouteApproaching the Later PlaysBibliographyIndex

R.D.S. Jack is Emeritus Professor of Medieval and Scottish Literature at Edinburgh University. He has written widely on Scottish and Comparative literature. His earlier book on Barrie, The Road to the Never Land, has recently been reprinted by Zeticula.

”As the title suggests, the mode of this monograph is fairly confrontational. […] This analysis of Barrie’s Victorian years and literary apprenticeship […] presents a more strategic, ambitious and self-aware writer. It is, however, also a book laying the ground for further debate.” - Glenda Norquay, Liverpool John Moores University, in: Scottish Literary Review, Vol. 40.2, pp. 199-201

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionThe Critical MythFilling the Research Gaps: Beyond Freud and the KailyardFilling the Textual Gaps I: “Kailyard” Prose 1877–90Filling the Textual Gaps II: “Kailyard” Drama 1877–93The Little MinisterTo The Never Land and Beyond: A Dramatic RouteTo The Never Land and Beyond: A Novel RouteApproaching the Later PlaysBibliographyIndex

R.D.S. Jack is Emeritus Professor of Medieval and Scottish Literature at Edinburgh University. He has written widely on Scottish and Comparative literature. His earlier book on Barrie, The Road to the Never Land, has recently been reprinted by Zeticula.

”As the title suggests, the mode of this monograph is fairly confrontational. […] This analysis of Barrie’s Victorian years and literary apprenticeship […] presents a more strategic, ambitious and self-aware writer. It is, however, also a book laying the ground for further debate.” - Glenda Norquay, Liverpool John Moores University, in: Scottish Literary Review, Vol. 40.2, pp. 199-201

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionThe Critical MythFilling the Research Gaps: Beyond Freud and the KailyardFilling the Textual Gaps I: “Kailyard” Prose 1877–90Filling the Textual Gaps II: “Kailyard” Drama 1877–93The Little MinisterTo The Never Land and Beyond: A Dramatic RouteTo The Never Land and Beyond: A Novel RouteApproaching the Later PlaysBibliographyIndex