Critical Works on James Leslie Mitchell/ Lewis Grassic Gibbon A Bibliography by William K Malcolm The Grassic Gibbon Centre regularly updates the following bibliography of writings about James Leslie Mitchell/ Lewis Grassic Gibbon. The Centre is keen to learn of additions or alterations to be made to the database and would greatly appreciate further details of sources of significant references. The Centre also aims to build up an archive of criticism; photocopies of new or missing items would again be greatly appreciated. The database was originally created in August, 2000 and remains the copyright of The Grassic Gibbon Centre. The foundations for the bibliography were laid by a series of articles published in The Bibliotheck, particularly the ground-breaking inventory published by Geoffrey Wagner in 1956. The articles concerned are : Wagner, Geoffrey, ‘James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in The Bibliotheck, 1, no.1, 1956, pp.3-21 Aitken, W R, ‘Further Notes on the Bibliography of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in The Bibliotheck, 1, no.2, 1957, pp.34-35 Young, Douglas F, ‘James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Chronological Checklist: Additions I’, in The Bibliotheck, 5, no.5, 1969, pp.169-173 Kidd, James, ‘James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Chronological Checklist: Additions II’, in The Bibliotheck, 5, no.5, 1969, pp.174-7 Malcolm, William K, ‘James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon Checklist:Additions III’, in The Bibliotheck, 11, no.6, 1983, pp.149-156 An up to date collation of primary and secondary references is to be found in: Whyte, Hamish, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon : A Bibliographical Checklist', in A Flame in the Mearns - Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Centenary Celebration, edited by Margery Palmer McCulloch and Sarah M Dunnigan, Association for Scottish Literary Studies Occasional Papers: Number 13, ASLS, Glasgow, 2003, pp.157-75 A - Books on Mitchell/Gibbon Campbell, Ian, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1985 Ehland, Christoph, Picaresque Perspectives – Exiled Identities: A Structural and Methodological Analysis of the Picaresque as a Literary Archetype in the Works of James Leslie Mitchell, Universitatsverlag Winter Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 2003 Geddes, Clarke, Nemesis in the Mearns, Scottish Cultural Press, Edinburgh, 1996 (fictionalisation) Gifford, Douglas, n, Neil M Gunn & Lewis Grassic Gibbon Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1983 McCulloch, Margery Palmer, and Dunnigan, Sarah M, editors, A Flame in the Mearns Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Centenary Celebration, Association for Scottish Literary Studies Occasional Papers: Number 13, ASLS, Glasgow, 2003 Malcolm, William K, A Blasphemer & Reformer: A Study of James Leslie Mitchell/ Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen, 1984 Munro, Ian S, Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1966 Whitfield, Peter, Grassic Gibbon and his World, Aberdeen Journals, Aberdeen, 1994 Young, Douglas F, Beyond the Sunset: A Study of James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Impulse Publications, Aberdeen, 1973 Zagratzki, Uwe, Libertare und Utopische Tendenzen im Erzahlwerk James Leslie Mitchells (Lewis Grassic Gibbons), Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 1991 B University Theses Abrahamsson, June, 'The Two Chrisses in Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon', Goteborg, 2001 Dixon, Keith, 'Crise et Ideologies dans l'Oeuvre de James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) 1901-1935', Grenoble, 1983 Ehland, Christoph, 'A Structural and Methodological Analysis of the Picaresque as an Archetype in Literature: An Enquiry into the Picaresque Element in the Writing of James Leslie Mitchell', Wuerzburg, 2001 Figueroa, Ricardo A, 'The Model of Society in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Writings', Glasgow, 1984 Hunter, Sandra F M, 'The Role and Status of Women in the Fiction of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon', McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 1995 Idle, Jeremy, 'Race and Nationality in the Work of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon', Edinburgh, 1994 Kerr, Christine, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon/ James Leslie Mitchell: Gender, Sex and Sexualities', Sussex, 2002 Knoop, Andreas, 'Die Beziehung Zwischen Mensch und Natur in den Werken von Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) und R.S. Thomas', Tubingen, 2001 McGrath, Michael J, 'James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon): A Study in Politics and Ideas in Relation to his Life and Work', Edinburgh, 1983 Malcolm, William K, 'The Novels and Stories of James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) in the Light of his Political and Philosophical Thinking', Aberdeen, 1982 Tange, Hanne, 'Dichotomy As Principle: The Two Worlds of James Leslie Mitchell/ Lewis Grassic Gibbon', Odense, 1996 Watt, Gordon A J, 'Paths to Utopia - A Study of the Fiction of James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon)', Exeter, 1977 Young, Douglas F, 'The Relevance of the Non-Fiction Works to the Novels of Lewis Grassic Gibbon', Aberdeen, 1969 C Secondary References Aitken, W R, Sixty Books on Scotland, School Library Association, London, 1951,pp.6-7 - ‘The Inscriptions in Sunset Song’, in The Bibliotheck, 8, 1976, pp.1-6 Allan, John R, North-East Lowlands of Scotland, Hale, London, 1952, pp.182-4 Allen, Walter, Tradition and Dream, Phoenix House, London, 1964, pp.249-252 Angus, David, ‘Gibbon’s Quair’, in Jabberwock: Edinburgh University Review, 3, no.3, March, 1951, pp.25-28 D’Arcy, Julian Meldon, ‘Chris Guthrie, Ellen Johns and the Two Ewan Tavendales: Significant Parallels in A Scots Quair’, in Scottish Literary Review, 23, no.1, May, 1996, pp.42-49 Baker, Timothy C, ‘The Romantic and the Real: James Leslie Mitchell and the Search for a Middle Way’, in Journal of Modern Literature, 36, no.4, Summer, 2013, pp. 44-61 Barke, James, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in Left Review,2, no.5, February, 1936, pp.220-5 Bell, Ian, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Revolutionary Romanticism’, in Scottish Studies, 10, 1990, pp.257-69 Bell, Ian A, ‘ “Work as if you Live in the Early Days of a Better Nation”: Scottish Fiction and the Experience of Industry’, in British Industrial Fictions, edited byH Gustav Klaus and Stephen Knight, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2000, pp.185-9 Bergonzi, Bernard, Reading the Thirties, Macmillan, London, 1978, pp.9, 124 Bing, Christy, The Lairds of Arbuthnott, (revised edition), Agnate Press, Edzell, p.105 Bold, Alan, Modern Scottish Literature, Longman, London, 1983, pp.111, 123, 123-39, 140, 180, 199, 212, 213, 258 - (edits) The Letters of Hugh MacDiarmid, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1984, pp.536-9, 552, 557, 558, 559-60, 562, 660, 784, 869 - MacDiarmid: A Critical Biography, John Murray, London, 1988, pp.313-15, 329, 330, 331, 415 - Scotland: A Literary Guide, Routledge, London, 1989, pp.22-23, 70, 84, 219 Bold, Valentina, ‘From Exile: The Poetry of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in A Flame in the Mearns Lewis Grassic Gibbon : A Centenary Celebration, op.cit., pp.115-123 Borthwick, David, ‘From Grey Granite to Urban Grit: A Revolution in Perspectives’, in A Flame in the Mearns Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Centenary Celebration, op.cit., pp.64-75 Branson, Noreen, and Heinemann, Margot, Britain in the Nineteen Thirties, Panther, St Albans, 1973, p.293 Bridie, James, The Scottish Character As It Was Viewed By Scottish Authors From Galt To Barrie, in Papers of the Greenock Philosophical Society, 1937, p.15 Brown, Ivor, ‘Caledonia Stern and Mild’, in The Observer, 1 August, 1943, p.3 - ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in Lewis Grassic Gibbon, A Scots Quair, Jarrolds, London, 1946, pp.5-8 - ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Tragic Loss to Literature’, in The Observer,10 February 1935, p.13 - Summer in Scotland, Collins, London, 1952, pp.130, 132, 147-153 ‘Man of the Mearns’, in The Observer, 26 June, 1966 Brown, Oliver, ‘Sunset Song, sunset echo’, in New Saltire, December, 1962, pp.26-32 Burns, John, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon and A Scots Quair’, in Chapman 23-24, 5, nos.5-6, Spring, 1979, pp.22-27 Burton, Deirdre, ‘A Feminist Reading of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair’, in The British Working-Class Novel in the Twentieth Century, edited by Jeremy Hawthorn, Edward Arnold, London, pp.35-46 Caird, James B, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon and his Contribution to the Scottish Novel’, in Essays in Literature, edited by John Murray, Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1936, pp.139-153 - ‘Some Reflections on Scottish Literature: II Prose’, in Scottish Periodical, 1, no.2, Summer, 1948, pp.69, 75- ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Neil Gunn: A Comparison’, in Caliban, new series, 17, no.1, 1981, pp.69-77 Calder, Angus, ‘A Mania for Self-Reliance: Grassic Gibbon’s Scots Quair’, in The Uses of Fiction: Essays on the Modern Novel in Honour of Arnold Kettle, edited by Douglas Jefferson and Graham Martin, London, 1982, pp.99-113 Cameron, David Kerr, The Ballad and the Plough: A Portrait of the Life of the Old Scottish Farmtouns, Gollancz, London, 1978, pp.23, 231-32 Campbell, Ian M, ‘The Science Fiction of John Leslie Mitchell’(sic), in Extrapolation, no.16, 1974, pp.53-63- ‘Chris Caledonia: The Search for an Identity’, in Scottish Literary Journal, 1, no.2, December, 1974, pp.45-57- ‘James Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus: A Novel of Rebellion’, in Scottish Literary Journal, 5, no.1, May, 1978, pp.53-60 - ‘Gibbon and MacDiarmid in the German Democratic Republic’, in Books in Scotland, no.6, Winter, 1979-80, pp.6-7 - Kailyard: A New Assessment, Ramsay Head Press, Edinburgh, 1981, pp.86-100, 111-12, 122-24 - ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon/James Leslie Mitchell 91901-1935)’, in A Companion to Scottish Culture, edited by David Daiches, London, 1981, pp.149-5 0-