The International Companion to
LEWIS GRASSIC GIBBON

Edited by Scott Lyall
Published in: Paperback, 192 pages.

By: Scottish Literature International,
September 2015

Price: £19.95 | €22.95 | USA $24.95 
ISBN 9781908980137

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell), the author of the acclaimed trilogy A Scots Quair – Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite – is one of the most important Scottish writers of the early twentieth century. This International Companion provides a thorough overview of Gibbon’s writing. Examining his works within the social, political, and literary developments of his time, this volume demonstrates Gibbon’s continuing relevance both in Scotland and internationally.

CONTENTS

• Series Editors’ Preface
• Acknowledgements
• A Brief Biography of Lewis Grassic Gibbon
• Introduction (Scott Lyall)
• Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Modernism (Morag Shiach)
• Language, Class and Social Power in A Scots Quair (Hanne Tange)
• The Shifting Identities of Mitchell and Gibbon (Carla Sassi)
• A Scots Quair and History (Timothy C. Baker)
• Gibbon’s Libertarian Fictional Politics (Uwe Zagratzki)
• Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Women (Glenda Norquay)
• Gibbon, Shelley and Romantic Revolutionary Renewal (Ryan D. Shirey)
• Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Scottish Nationalism (Christopher Silver)
• The Battle for Civilisation in Gibbon’s Science Fiction (Scott Lyall)
• Endnotes
• Further Reading
• Notes on Contributors
• Index

Cover image: woodcut images © Simon Redington, originally created for TAG Theatre Company’s production of the Scots Quair trilogy, performed at the Assembly Hall, Edinburgh International Festival, 1993.