Notes on Contributors xi Preface xxii Acknowledgements xxiv 1 Introduction: What is Scottish Literature? 1Gerard Carruthers Part I: Periods 15 2 The First Millennium 17Dauvit Broun and Gerard Carruthers 3 The Medieval Period 27Pamela King 4 The Reformation 39David J. Parkinson 5 The Seventeenth Century 52Alasdair A. MacDonald 6 The Enlightenment 64Ronnie Young 7 Literature in Gaelic I 77Duncan Sneddon and M. Pía Coira 8 Romanticism 91Dafydd Moore 9 The Scotch Novel 104Peter Garside 10 The Victorian Period 116Kirstie Blair and Michael Shaw 11 Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival 127Scott Lyall 12 Contemporary and Post-Modern Scotland 140Timothy C. Baker 13 Literature in Gaelic II 152Peter Mackay Part II: Genres and Contexts 165 14 The Early Book in Scotland 167Jeremy J. Smith 15 Publishing in Scotland to 1800 180Rhona Brown 16 Publishing in Scotland from 1800 192David Finkelstein 17 Sentimental Literature 205Andrew Nash 18 Jacobitism 218Daniel Cook 19 Religion 233Linden Bicket 20 Folkways 246Corey Gibson 21 Mapping Murder — Places in Scottish Crime Writing 259Carol Baraniuk 22 Children's Literature 271Sarah M. Dunnigan 23 Scottish Drama and Theatre 286Ian Brown 24 Gender and Sexuality 299Carole Jones 25 Race and Ethnicity in Scottish Literature 311Joe Jackson 26 Magazines, Devolution and Makars — the Institutions of Scottish Literature 324Eleanor Bell 27 Diaspora 336Paul Malgrati 28 Teaching Scottish Literature in the English Classroom 349Gillian Sargent 29 Scottish Literature in the 21st Century and the New Media 363Craig Lamont Part III: Writers 377 30 Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas 379Nicola Royan 31 Poets in the Age of James VI 393Kelsey Jackson Williams 32 Women's Writing to 1700 406Sarah M. Dunnigan 33 Robert Burns and the 18th Century Vernacular Revival 419Steve Newman 34 Women's Writing, 1700—1900 432Ainsley McIntosh 35 James Thomson 445Sandro Jung 36 Alasdair A. MacDonald and Duncan Ban McIntyre 458Ronald Black 37 Walter Scott 473Ian Duncan 38 Thomas Carlyle and His Ideas 486Joanna Malecka 39 Robert Louis Stevenson 498Robert P. Irvine 40 Sorley MacLean 509Máire Ní Annracháin 41 W.S. Graham 523Andrew McNeillie 42 Kelman, Gray, Welsh and the New Urban Writing 538Anthony Jarrells 43 Muriel Spark and the Invention of Identity 550David Goldie 44 Edwin Morgan, Norman MacCaig and Iain Crichton Smith 561Matt McGuire 45 Liz Lochhead and Jackie Kay 574Carla Rodríguez González 46 Contemporary Poetry — Carol-Ann Duffy, Kathleen Jamie and Don Paterson 586Danny O'Connor 47 Women's Writing, 1900—2020 598Fiona McCulloch 48 Scottish Literature in Film 611John Caughie 49 Timeline and Further Resources 624Moira Hansen Index 644

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