Scottish Literature

Douglas Gifford was a Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow and Research Fellow in the Glasgow School of Scottish Studies.

This substantial new volume is a stimulating yet in-depth introduction to Scottish literature in English and Scots. From medieval to modern, the entire range of literature is introduced, examined and explored. The volume looks at Scottish literature in six period sections: Early Scottish Literature, Eighteenth-Century, The Age of Scott, Victorian and Edwardian, The Twentieth-Century Scottish Literary Renaissance, and Scottish Literature since 1945. This volume is part of the series on Scottish Language and Literature, Douglas Gifford, General Editor.

How to use this book; Section One: Early Scottish Literature; 1. Literary Roots: Medieval Poetry; 2. Robert Henryson and William Dunbar; 3. Early Scottish Drama: Ane Satyre and Philotus; 4. Renaissance Poetry: The Jacobean Period; 5. The Ballads; 6. Widening the Range; Section Two: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Literature; 7. Enlightenment and Vernacular; 8. Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson and the Vernacular Tradition; 9. Robert Burns; 10. Tobias Smollett: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker; 11. Widening the Range; Section Three: Scottish Literature in the Age of Scott; 12. The Age of Walter Scott; 13. Scott and Scotland; 14. Scott's Waverley; 15. Susan Ferrier: Marriage; 16. John Galt: The Entail; 17. James Hogg: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner; 18. Widening the Range; Section Four: Victorian and Edwardian Scottish Literature; 19. Scottish Literature in the Victorian and Edwardian Era; 20. George MacDonald: Phantastes; 21. James Young Geddes, John Davidson and Scottish Poetry; 22. James Thomson: The City of Dreadful Night; 23. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Merry Men, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Master of Ballantrae; 24. Margaret Oliphant: Kirsteen; 25. George Douglas Brown: The House with the Green Shutters; 26. J. M. Barrie and the Scottish Theatre; 27. Widening the Range; Section Five: The Twentieth-Century Scottish Literary Renaissance; 28. A Twentieth-Century Scottish Renaissance?; 29. Hugh MacDiarmid, Edwin Muir and Poetry in the Inter-War Period; 30. Opening the Doors: Fiction by Women 1911-1947; 31. The Poetry of William Soutar; 32. Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Eric Linklater; 33. James Bridie and the Scottish Theatre; 34. The Poetry of Sorley Maclean; 35. The Epic Fiction of Neil Gunn; 36. Widening the Range; Section Six: Scottish Literature since 1945; 37. Decline and Revival: Modern Scottish Literature; 38. Scottish Poetry after 1945; 39. Modern Scottish Drama; 40. Scottish Fiction since 1945 I: Continuity, Despair and Change; 41. Scottish Fiction since 1945 II: Despair, Change and Hope; 42. Widening the Range; Section Seven: Reading Lists; Section Eight: Resources and Connections; Acknowledgements; Index.