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The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns explores the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national 'bard', Robert Burns (1759-96).

A COMPANION TO SCOTTISH LITERATURE A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of the world's leading experts in the field, this comprehensive resource provides the historical background of Scottish literature, highlights new critical approaches, and explores wider cultural and institution...

A beautiful Pocket Classics collection of stories by great Scottish writers past and presentScottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from an entrancingly literary land. Scotland is known for its centuries of colorful Celtic folklore and its long tradition of spine-tingling ghost stories, as well as for fiction that revels in the gorgeous landscapes of the Highlands and the Western Isles and the rich histories of Edinburgh and Glasgow. F...

The 1820 Scottish Rising has been increasingly studied in recent decades. This collection of essays looks especially at local players on the ground across multiple regional centres in the west of Scotland, as well as the wider political circumstances within government and civil society that provide the rising's context.

These essays offer fresh insight into the life and work of Muriel Spark (1918-2006). Looking at the cultural, literary, religious and personal frameworks that shaped her writing, The Crooked Dividend provides a comprehensive overview of Spark's multifaceted work through the examination of her publications, archive material, and colourful career.

John Galt (1779-1839) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen, and a friend and biographer of Lord Byron. Although a prolific writer, and much admired in his own lifetime, Galt has never achieved comparable levels of literary fame, and his works - poised between Enlightenment and Romanticism - are now often overlooked. Yet his reputation has been slowly growing, and he has attracted critical interest as both a political novelist...

Gerard Carruthers' SCOTNOTE study guide focuses on three novels: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Master of Ballantrae, and The Ebb-Tide. Suitable for senior school pupils and students at all levels.

An original study of ideas of union within the Scottish literary tradition from the early modern period to the present~New readings of canonical Scottish and English literature~Features some of today's leading literary scholars and historians of Britain~Re-examines historic assumptions about national identity

Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature Series Editors: Ian Brown & Thomas Owen Clancy This series offers new insights into Scottish authors, periods and topics drawing on contemporary critical approaches. Each volume: * provides a critical evaluation and comprehensive overview of its subject * offers thought-provoking original critical assessments by expert contributors * includes a general introduction by the volume editor(s) and a selec...

This guide combines detailed literary history with discussion of contemporary debates about Scottishness. The book considers the rise of Scottish Studies, the development of a national literature, and issues of cultural nationalism. Beginning in the medieval period during a time of nation building, the book goes on to focus on the 'Scots revival' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before moving on to discuss the literary renaissance of...

Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature Series Editors: Ian Brown & Thomas Owen Clancy This series offers new insights into Scottish authors, periods and topics drawing on contemporary critical approaches. Each volume: * provides a critical evaluation and comprehensive overview of its subject * offers thought-provoking original critical assessments by expert contributors * includes a general introduction by the volume editor(s) and a selec...

This guide combines detailed literary history with discussion of contemporary debates about Scottishness.The book considers the rise of Scottish Studies, the development of a national literature, and issues of cultural nationalism. Beginning in the medieval period during a time of nation building, the book goes on to focus on the 'Scots revival' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before moving on to discuss the literary renaissance of ...

An introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period to the present.

A unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period.

The nineteenth century is often read as a time of retreat and diffusion in Scottish literature under the overwhelming influence of British identity. IScotland and the 19th-Century World/I presents Scottish literature as altogether more dynamic, with narratives of Scottish identity working beyond the merely imperial. This collection of essays by leading international scholars highlights Scottish literary intersections with North America, Asia, ...

This book explores British Romantic writers' responses to the national and cultural identities of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

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Collects Scottish poetry from early Celtic times to the present day.

Those researching the history of political democracy in Scotland will inevitably find that one name stands out from the crowd, namely that of Thomas Muir of Huntershill (1765-1799). He was one of several people tried in Scottish courts during the 1790s for the alleged crime of 'Sedition', and four of the others (Thomas Fyshe Palmer, William Skirving, Maurice Margarot and Joseph Gerrald) share commemoration with him on a large monument in Edinb...