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Click here to watch Andrew Young’s talk on Teaching Muriel Spark plus other videos from the 2018 ASLS Schools Conference.

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Muriel Spark’s arch, subversive novel entertains us with its amusing, nostalgic evocation of the 1930s schooldays of a group of middle-class Edinburgh girls – then forces us to face up to the easy surface charms, and darker undercurrents, of Miss Jean Brodie’s perfect self-assurance.

David Robb’s Scotnote untangles the many aspects of this novel – historical, political, psychological and religious – and is an ideal guide for senior school pupils and students at all levels.

CONTENTS

• Muriel Spark and her novels
• The events in the novel
• The novel and the period in which it is set
• Religion in the novel
• Assessing Jean Brodie
• Sandy Stranger and the Brodie Set
• Daydreams, stories and truth
• Select bibliography