The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature

Ian Brown, Alan Riach, Ian Brown, Alan Riach

• Publisher: EUP
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9780748636952
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This volume considers the major themes, texts and authors of Scottish literature of the twentieth and, so far, twenty-first century. It identifies the contexts and impulses that led Scottish writers to adopt their creative literary strategies. Moving beyond traditional classifications, it draws on the most recent critical approaches to open up new perspectives on Scottish literature since 1900.The volume's innovative thematic structure ensures that the most important texts or authors are seen from different perspectives whether in the context of empire, renaissance, war and post-war, literary genre, generation, and resistance. In order to provide thorough coverage, these thematic chapters are complemented by chronological 'Arcade' chapters, which outline the contexts of the literature of the period by decades, and by 'Overview' chapters which trace developments across the century in theatre, language and Gaelic literature. Taken together, the chapters provide a thorough and thought-provoking account of the century's literature.Key Features*The first volume of its kind to offer accessible and authoritative insights into Scottish literature since 1900*Innovative structure allows for new ways of approaching Scottish writers and literary texts * Draws on the most recent scholarship in the field from leading literary critics* Includes a guide to further reading

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Contents
• Series Editors’ Preface
• Introduction
• CHAPTER ONE Arcades – The Turning of the Nineteenth Century
• CHAPTER TWO Scotland, Empire and Apocalypse – From Stevenson to Buchan
• CHAPTER THREE Literature and World War One
• CHAPTER FOUR Arcades – The 1920s and 1930s
• CHAPTER FIVE Twentieth-Century Scottish Drama
• CHAPTER SIX The Modern Scottish Literary Renaissance
• CHAPTER SEVEN Literature and World War Two
• CHAPTER EIGHT Arcades – The 1940s and 1950s
• CHAPTER NINE Language, Hugh MacDiarmid and W. S. Graham
• CHAPTER TEN Post-War Scottish Fiction – Mac Colla, Linklater, Jenkins, Spark and Kennaway
• CHAPTER ELEVEN Arcades – The 1960s and 1970s
• CHAPTER TWELVE The (B)order in Modern Scottish Literature
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Seven Poets Generation
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN Language and Identity in Modern Gaelic Verse
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN Arcades – The 1980s and 1990s
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN Scottish Contemporary Popular and Genre Fiction
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Poetry in the Age of Morgan
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Entering the Twenty-first Century
• Endnotes
• Further Reading
• Notes on Contributors
• Index