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Category: Scottish Literature

Language and Literature

Flawed Crystals: Muriel Spark’s Ways of Seeing

posted by Kirsty Crosbie March 8, 20218 min read14 Views

‘How do you do it? I am dazzled’, enthused Evelyn Waugh in a letter to Muriel Spark in 1960. Spark’s…

Scottish Literature

Dialectics of Improvement: a conversation

posted by Kirsty Crosbie April 3, 20205 min read366 Views

Gerard Lee McKeever’s new book Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831 is published this month in the ‘Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism’ series. To mark the occasion, Dr McKeever spoke to series co-editor Professor Penny Fielding.

Post 19th Century Literary Studies

Robert Louis Stevenson and Character Creation

posted by Kirsty Crosbie December 10, 20195 min read583 Views

Audrey Murfin explores Robert Louis Stevenson and his methods of Character Creation

Enlightenment in a Smart City
British History

Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh’s Civic Development, 1660-1750

posted by Emma at EUP January 14, 20194 min read2255 Views

By Murray Pittock My book is a study of the Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided…

Language and Literature

Walter Scott the “mighty minstrel” and Marmion

posted by Carla Hepburn July 3, 20185 min read1890 Views

Walter Scott’s poetry dominated the early years of the nineteenth century but has subsequently fallen into relative obscurity. The first…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Language and Literature

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-2017

posted by Teri Williams October 16, 20175 min read2058 Views

By Robert Morrison An extract from Romanticism, Volume 23.3, October 2017 1817 was a remarkable year for British Romanticism John…

Hamish Henderson
Language and Literature

Hamish Henderson and our Historical Moment

posted by Emma at EUP October 3, 20176 min read1630 Views

What’s the artist for in modern Scotland? Curating our accumulated history? Envisioning our possible and impossible futures? Diagnosing the ills…

Religion

George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination

posted by Emma at EUP August 7, 20175 min read1891 Views

What do you imagine when you think about great Catholic art? Perhaps you call to mind the gilded pages of…

Language and Literature

An unfinished masterpiece by Robert Louis Stevenson

posted by Carla Hepburn June 19, 20173 min read2253 Views

By Gillian Hughes Many of Stevenson’s longer works of fiction might be characterised as historical novels: in Weir of Hermiston Stevenson…

Cultural Studies

Gaelic Satire and 18th Century Highland History

posted by Teri Williams May 29, 20174 min read2376 Views

The benefit of studying Gaelic poetry in conjunction with conventional documentary sources to obtain a fuller understanding of the past…

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