A Companion to Scottish Literature

Notes on Contributors xi Preface xxii Acknowledgements xxiv 1 Introduction: What is Scottish Literature? 1 Gerard Carruthers Part I: Periods 15 2 The First Millennium 17 Dauvit Broun and Gerard Carruthers 3 The Medieval Period 27 Pamela King 4 The Reformation 39 David J. Parkinson 5 The Seventeenth Century 52 Alasdair A. MacDonald 6 The Enlightenment 64 Ronnie Young 7 Literature in Gaelic I 77 Duncan Sneddon and M. Pía Coira 8 Romanticism 91 Dafydd Moore 9 The Scotch Novel 104 Peter Garside 10 The Victorian Period 116 Kirstie Blair and Michael Shaw 11 Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival 127 Scott Lyall 12 Contemporary and Post-Modern Scotland 140 Timothy C. Baker 13 Literature in Gaelic II 152 Peter Mackay Part II: Genres and Contexts 165 14 The Early Book in Scotland 167 Jeremy J. Smith 15 Publishing in Scotland to 1800 180 Rhona Brown 16 Publishing in Scotland from 1800 192 David Finkelstein 17 Sentimental Literature 205 Andrew Nash 18 Jacobitism 218 Daniel Cook 19 Religion 233 Linden Bicket 20 Folkways 246 Corey Gibson 21 Mapping Murder -- Places in Scottish Crime Writing 259 Carol Baraniuk 22 Children's Literature 271 Sarah M. Dunnigan 23 Scottish Drama and Theatre 286 Ian Brown 24 Gender and Sexuality 299 Carole Jones 25 Race and Ethnicity in Scottish Literature 311 Joe Jackson 26 Magazines, Devolution and Makars -- the Institutions of Scottish Literature 324 Eleanor Bell 27 Diaspora 336 Paul Malgrati 28 Teaching Scottish Literature in the English Classroom 349 Gillian Sargent 29 Scottish Literature in the 21st Century and the New Media 363 Craig Lamont Part III: Writers 377 30 Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas 379 Nicola Royan 31 Poets in the Age of James VI 393 Kelsey Jackson Williams 32 Women's Writing to 1700 406 Sarah M. Dunnigan 33 Robert Burns and the 18th Century Vernacular Revival 419 Steve Newman 34 Women's Writing, 1700--1900 432 Ainsley McIntosh 35 James Thomson 445 Sandro Jung 36 Alasdair A. MacDonald and Duncan Ban McIntyre 458 Ronald

GERARD CARRUTHERS is Francis Hutcheson Chair of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is author or editor of 22 books and more than 170 academic essays and articles. Professor Carruthers is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Advisor to the National Trust for Scotland on Burns and General Editor of the multi-volume Oxford University Press edition of the Collected Works of Robert Burns. Recent publications include the co-edited volumes 1820: Scottish Rebellion, essays on a nineteenth-century insurrection (John Donald, 2022) and Crooked Dividend: Essays on Muriel Spark (ASL, 2022).