Table of Contents

Preface, Ian Brown, Thomas Clancy, Susan Manning and Murray Pittock; Chapter 1 - Changing cultures: the history of Scotland since 1918 Richard Finlay; Chapter 2 - Notes on a small country: Scotland's geography since 1918, Hayden Lorimer; Chapter 3 - Resistance to monolinguality: the languages of Scotland since 1918, Wilson Mcleod and Jeremy Smith; Chapter 4 - The International Reception and Literary Impact of Scottish Literature of the period since 1918, Paul Barnaby and Tom Hubbard; Chapter 5 - The Criticism of Scottish Literature: tradition, decline and renovation., Cairns Craig; Chapter 6 - Literature and the Screen Media since 1908, Richard Butt; Chapter 7 - Material Culture in Modern Scotland , Murray Pittock; Chapter 8 - Sir James Frazer And Marian McNeill, Robert Fraser; Chapter 9 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Alan Riach; Chapter 10 - Edwin and Willa Muir: Scottish, European and Gender Journeys 1918-1969, Margery Palmer McCulloch; Chapter 11 - 'To get leave to live': negotiating regional identity in the literature of North-east Scotland, Alison Lumsden; Chapter 12 - Disorientation of place, time and 'Scottishness': Conan Doyle, Linklater, Gunn, Mackay Brown and Elphinstone, Ian Campbell; Chapter 13 - Past and Present: Modern Scottish Historical Fiction, Colin Milton; Chapter 14 - Tradition and Modernity: Gaelic Bards in the Twentieth Century, Thomas A McKean; Chapter 15 - Theatres, Writers and Society: Structures and infrastructures of theatre provision in twentieth-century Scotland, David Hutchison; Chapter 16 - Cultural Catalysts: Sorley MacLean and George Campbell Hay, Christopher Whyte; Chapter 17 - Living with the double tongue: modern poetry in Scots, Roderick Watson; Chapter 18 - Monsters and Goddesses: culture re-energised in the poetry of Ruaraidh MacThomais and Aonghas MacNeacail, Michel Byrne; Chapter 19 - Old Country, New Dreams: Scottish Poetry since the 1970s, Eleanor Bell; Chapter 20 - The Lost Boys and Girls of Scottish Children's Fiction, Maureen A Farrell; Chapter 21 - The human and textual condition: Muriel Spark's narratives, Margaret Elphinstone; Chapter 22 - From Carswell to Kay: Aspects of Gender, the Novel and the Drama, Susanne Hagemann; Chapter 23 - The Autobiography in Scottish Gaelic, Meg Bateman; Chapter 24 -Varieties of voice and changing contexts: Robin Jenkins, Janice Galloway, Bernard Sellin; Chapter 25 - Breaking Boundaries: From Modern to Contemporary in Scottish Fiction , Douglas Gifford; Chapter 26 - Re-imagining the city: end of the century cultural signs in the novels of McIlvanney, Banks, Gray, Welsh, Kelman, Owens, and Rankin., Marie Odile Pittin-Hedon; Chapter 27 - The Border crossers and reconfiguration of the possible: poet-playwright-novelists from the mid twentieth century on, Ian Brown and Colin Nicholson; Chapter 28 - Struggling for status and the limits of the twentieth century Gaelic literary revival: the short story, novel and drama in Gaelic, Michelle MacLeod and Moray Watson; Chapter 29 - Staging the Nation: multiplicity and cultural diversity in contemporary Scottish theatre, Ian Brown; Chapter 30 - Varieties of Gender Politics, Sexuality and Thematic Innovation in late Twentieth-century Drama, Ksenija Horvat; Chapter 31 - The Diaspora and its writers, Iain Wright; Chapter 32 - New Diversity, Hybridity and Scottishness, Alastair Niven.

About the Author

Ian Brown is Professor in Drama at Kingston University. He is General Editor of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature (EUP: 2007) and Series Editor of The Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature, co-editing the volume on the twentieth century (2009) and on drama (due out in 2011). Thomas Clancy is Lecturer in the Department of Celtic at the University of Glasgow. Susan Manning is Grierson Professor of English Literature, and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing (2002) and The Puritan-Provincial Vision: Scottish and American Literature in the Nineteenth Century (1990). Murray Pittock is Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, Head of the College of Arts and Vice-Principal. He has formerly held chairs and other senior appointments at Strathclyde, Edinburgh and Manchester universities. His recent work includes Scottish and Irish Romanticism (2008), The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe (2007) and James Boswell (2007). Forthcoming work includes collections on Robert Burns in Global Culture, the Reception of Robert Burns in Europe and the textual edition of the Scottish Musical Museum for the Oxford Burns. He is currently PI of the AHRC Beyond Text project, 'Robert Burns, 1796-1909: Inventing Tradition and Securing Memory'.

Reviews

Monumental yet accessible, comprehensive in its scholarly range but full of unexpected delights, a mirror of a fast-changing society and its culture, the third volume of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature represents a new level of knowledge and consciousness about Scotland's literature in all its facets and multiple identities. -- Michael Lynch, Professor Emeritus in Scottish History, former Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography, University of Edinburgh Monumental yet accessible, comprehensive in its scholarly range but full of unexpected delights, a mirror of a fast-changing society and its culture, the third volume of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature represents a new level of knowledge and consciousness about Scotland's literature in all its facets and multiple identities.