Scotland and the 19th-Century World

"Reciprocal haunting is what this book achieves… The volume celebrates Douglas Gifford, and he continues his many contributions to the study of Scottish literature with an opening chapter that at once seems haunted by the critical past, yet determined to move on. The Kailyard still takes its knocks, but Gifford cracks open the canon he helped establish in the 1988 History of Scottish Literature to reveal a cornucopia of alternate authors, texts, and critical perspectives." – Caroline McCracken-Flesher, University of Wyoming, in: The Bottle Imp"One of the most striking things about this volume is its matter-of-fact comparativism, an approach that both evokes and helps establish a ‘new’ Scottish studies that is introspective without seeming introverted. The editors’ excellent introductory chapter, for example, rebuts the ‘old’ narrative of the “wasteland” of nineteenth-century [Scottish] literature’, while the insightful chapter that follows, by Douglas Gifford, sets forth a revisionist account of the famed ‘Scottish Renaissance’ that paints a picture of a complementary rather than (more stereotypically) antagonistic relationship between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." – Matthew Wickman, Brigham Young University, Utah, in: Scottish Literary Review 5/2 (2013), pp. 127-9"This book is innovative and rigorously researched with an animated introduction. […] The volume considers exchanges between Scotland and America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, looking not only at reciprocal cultural influences but also at what literary constructions reveal about the nature of Scottish society." – Valerie Wallace, Victoria University of Wellington, in Victorian Studies 56/3 Spring (2014), pp. 571-573

• ContributorsAcknowledgementsGerard Carruthers, David Goldie and Alastair Renfrew: IntroductionDouglas Gifford: Preparing for Renaissance: Revaluing Nineteenth-Century Scottish LiteratureAndrew Hook: Scotland, the USA, and National Literatures in the Nineteenth CenturyPam Perkins: Reviewing America: Francis Jeffrey, The Edinburgh Review and the United StatesSuzanne Gilbert: Alliance and Defiance in Scottish and American Outlaw-Hero BalladsSusan Manning: Lateral Literary Biography: Robert Fergusson, Herman Melville and “Bartleby”Trevor Royle: The Military Kailyard: The Iconography of the Nineteenth-Century SoldierMichael Fry: “The Key to their Hearts”: Scottish OrientalismRichard Finlay: Exporting the Covenant: Scottish Missionary Tales and Africa, c.1870–c.1920Johnny Rodger: From Slogan to Clan: Three Fragments from the Evolving Scottish/Germanic Literary Relations of the Romantic PeriodRitchie Robertson: Nietzsche in Glasgow: Alexander Tille, John Davidson and Edwin MuirKenneth Simpson: “The great affair is to move”: Stevenson’s JourneysSarah Dunnigan: The Enchanted Worlds of Scott, Scotland, and the GrimmsIndex