Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76241-0 - The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature Edited by Gerard Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney Frontmatter More information The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature Scotland’s rich literary tradition is a product of its unique culture and landscape, as well as of its long history of inclusion and resistance to the United Kingdom. Scottish literature includes masterpieces in three languages – English, Scots and Gaelic – and global perspectives from the diaspora of Scots all over the world. This Companion offers a unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period to the post-devolution present. Essays focus on key periods and movements (the Scottish Enlightenment, Scottish Romanticism and the Scottish Renaissance), genres (the historical novel, Scottish Gothic, ‘Tartan Noir’) and major authors (Burns, Scott, Stevenson, MacDiarmid and Spark). A chronology and guides to further reading in each chapter make this an ideal overview of a national literature that continues to develop its own distinctive style. gerard carruthers is professor of Scottish Literature since 1700 at the University of Glasgow. liam mcilvanney is Stuart Professor of Scottish Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. 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Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2012 Printed in the United States of America A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data The Cambridge Companion to Scottish literature / edited by Gerard Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney. p. cm. – (Cambridge companions to literature) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-521-76241-0 (hardback) – isbn 978-0-521-18936-1 (paperback) 1. English literature – Scottish authors – History and criticism. 2. Scottish literature – History and criticism. 3. Scotland – In literature. I. Carruthers, Gerard, editor of compilation. II. McIlvanney, Liam, editor of compilation. pr8511.c36 2012 820.9′9411–dc23 2012003091 isbn 978-0-521-76241-0 Hardback isbn 978-0-521-18936-1 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76241-0 - The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature Edited by Gerard Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney Frontmatter More information Contents Notes on Contributors page ix Acknowledgements xiii Chronology xv Introduction 1 Gerard Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney 1. Scottish Literature before Scottish Literature 13 Thomas Clancy 2. The Medieval Period 27 Alessandra Petrina 3. Reformation and Renaissance 41 Sarah M. Dunnigan 4. The Aftermath of Union 56 Leith Davis 5. Robert Burns 71 Nigel Leask 6. Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Scottish Canon: Cosmopolites or Narrow Nationalists? 86 Murray Pittock 7. Scott and the Historical Novel: A Scottish Rise of the Novel 103 Ian Duncan vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76241-0 - The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature Edited by Gerard Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney Frontmatter More information Contents 8. The Gaelic Tradition 117 Peter Mackay 9. Scottish Gothic 132 David Punter 10. Victorian Scottish Literature 145 Andrew Nash 11. Robert Louis Stevenson 159 Penny Fielding 12. Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance 173 Scott Lyall 13. Popular Fiction: Detective Novels and Thrillers from Holmes to Rebus 188 David Goldie 14. Muriel Spark 203 Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr 15. The Glasgow Novel 217 Liam McIlvanney 16. ‘What is the language using us for?’: Modern Scottish Poetry 233 Fiona Stafford 17. The Emergence of Scottish Studies 248 Matthew Wickman 18. Otherworlds: Devolution and the Scottish Novel 261 Cairns Craig 19. Scottish Literature in Diaspora 275 Gerard Carruthers Index 289 viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76241-0 - The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature Edited by Gerard Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney Frontmatter More information Notes on ContrIbutors Gerard Carruthers is professor (of Scottish literature since 1700) at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Scottish Literature: A Critical Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), editor of The Devil to Stage: Five Plays by James Bridie (Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2007) and general editor of the new Oxford University Press edition of the works of Robert Burns. Thomas Clancy is Chair of Celtic at the University of Glasgow. He has writ- ten extensively on both historical and literary aspects of medieval Scotland and Ireland, and is author, with Gilbert Márkus, of Iona: The Earliest Poetry of a Celtic Monastery (Edinburgh University Press, 1995), editor of The Triumph Tree: Scotland’s Earliest Poetry, AD 550–1350 (Interlink Pub Group Inc, 1998) and edi- tor, with Murray Pittock, of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature Volume I, ‘From Columba to the Union’ (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). Cairns Craig is Glucksman Professor of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. He is editor of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies and his most recent books are Associationism and the Literary Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2007) and Intending Scotland (Edinburgh University Press, 2009). Leith Davis is professor of English and director of the Centre for Scottish Studies at Simon Fraser University in Greater Vancouver, Canada. She is the author of Acts of Union: Scotland and the Negotiation of the British Nation (Stanford University Press, 1998) and Music, Postcolonialism and Gender: The Construction of Irish Identity, 1725–1875 (Notre Dame University Press, 2005) and co-editor (with Ian Duncan and Janet Sorensen) of Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Ian Duncan is Florence Green Bixby Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Scott’s Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (Princeton University Press, 2007) and Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel (Cambridge University Press, 1992), and a co-editor ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76241-0 - The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature Edited by Gerard Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney Frontmatter More information Notes on Contributors of Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Travel Writing 1700–1830 (Oxford University Press, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels (MLA, 2009) and the Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming). Sarah M. Dunnigan is a senior lecturer in English literature at Edinburgh University where she teaches medieval and Renaissance literature and the tradi- tions of fantasy and fairy tale writing. She is the author of Eros and Poetry at the Courts of Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI (Palgrave, 2002), has edited essay collections on medieval and early modern Scottish literature and women’s writing and is currently writing a book about Scottish fairy tales. Penny Fielding teaches English and Scottish literature at Edinburgh University. Her books include Scotland and the Fictions of Geography: North Britain 1760– 1820 (Cambridge