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Tag: Scottish Literature

Language and Literature

Stands Scottish Literature Where It Did? Revisiting Devolution

posted by Kirsty Crosbie May 11, 20228 min read3 Views

It’s been fifteen years since the last fat volume of essays on contemporary Scottish writing. Only a blink of historical time, but it’s been quite an eventful period. When the chapters of Berthold Schoene’s brilliant Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature were being written, both the country and its debates looked rather different.

Language and Literature

Walter Scott’s Seven Deadly Tales

posted by Kirsty Crosbie June 7, 20219 min read353 Views

by Daniel Cook Still revered as one of the world’s great historical novelists, Sir Walter Scott kept coming back to…

Cultural Studies

Burns Chronicle: The Oldest Scottish Literature Journal in the World?

posted by Teri Williams April 15, 20215 min read150 Views

By the Editors & Reviews Editor, the Burns Chronicle Almost 130 years ago, in 1892, enthusiasts started publishing the Burns…

Language and Literature

‘Everything that wriggles’: The Muriel Spark Archives

posted by Kirsty Crosbie April 1, 20217 min read108 Views

By James Bailey ‘I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends’, wrote Spark in her 1992 autobiography,…

Language and Literature

Flawed Crystals: Muriel Spark’s Ways of Seeing

posted by Kirsty Crosbie March 8, 20218 min read99 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 read437 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 read656 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 read2341 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 read1986 Views

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

Hamish Henderson
Language and Literature

Hamish Henderson and our Historical Moment

posted by Emma at EUP October 3, 20176 min read1713 Views

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

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