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- Professor Angela Esterhammer (University of Toronto)
- Professor Crawford Gribben (Queen’s University Belfast)
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- Dr Carole Jones (University of Edinburgh)
- Professor Alison Lumsden (University of Aberdeen)
- Dr Peter Mackay (University of St Andrews)
- Professor Caroline McCracken-Flesher (University of Wyoming)
- Dr Andrew Nash (University of London)
- Professor Glenda Norquay (John Moores University, Liverpool)
- Professor Alessandra Petrina (Università degli Studi di Padova)
- Professor Murray Pittock (University of Glasgow)
- Professor Fiona Stafford (Somerville College, Oxford)
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Volume 16, Number 2, Autumn/Winter 2024
Editorial
Rhona Brown, Scott Lyall
‘The air of an early muse’: The Visionary Fictions of Ann Scott-Moncrieff
Linden Bicket
The Ecology of Place in Neil Gunn’s Highland River and Nishida Kitarō’s basho
Michael Gardiner
The Witch: David Lindsay’s Quest of the Absolute
John Herdman
Stevenson in Denver in 1880: A Note for the RLS Biography
Marijane Osborn
Borrowing ‘great Petrarchs name’: Rewriting the Canon in Anna Hume’s Translation of Petrarch’s ‘Triumphs’
Noelia Pousada-Lobiera
Ideal Kingship and Political Advice in the Late Fifteenth-Century Lancelot of the Laik
Sibilla Siano
Scott, Scotland, and Cuba: Transnational Literary Entanglements, Race, and a Cuban Anti-Slavery Novel
Arun Sood, Félix Flores Varona
Nan Shepherd’s Correspondence, 1920–1980 ed. by Kerri Andrews (review)
Ben Garlick
Lawrie Todd; or The Settlers in the Woods by John Galt (review)
Kenneth McNeil
England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland by Lorna Hutson (review)
Allison L. Steenson
Tobias Smollett After 300 Years: Life, Writing, Reputation ed. by Richard J. Jones (review)
Helen Williams
The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow by Craig Lamont (review)
Michael Morris
The Sonnets of Thomas Pringle: Migration and Poetic Form by Patrick Lenahan (review)
Lars Atkin
Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival by Petra Johana Poncarová (review)
Kate Louise Mathis, Michel Byrne
Naomi Mitchison: A Writer in Time ed. by James Purdon (review)
Corey Gibson
Making Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Author-Publisher and His Support Network by Richard B. Sher (review)
Robert Irvine
Scotland’s Royal Women and European Literary Culture, 1424–1587 by Emily Wingfield (review)
Emily Hay
Volume 16, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2024
Editorial
Darryl Peers, Zoë Strachan
Queer Nostalgia and Island Time in J. M. Barrie and Compton Mackenzie
Timothy C. Baker
Called Back: Reading Backwards in Ali Smith
Eleanor Byrne
Collapse, Demolition and Queer Landscapes
Jack Halberstam
‘In spite of, to spite’: Trans Figuring in Shola von Reinhold’s LOTE (2020)
Carole Jones
The Uses of Queer Scottish Form
Churnjeet Mahn
Poems in Letters: Callie Gardner’s ‘Letteriness’
Iain Morrison
The Breaks, With Morgan
Heather H. Yeung
Volume 15, Number 2, Autumn/Winter 2023
Editorial
Rhona Brown, Scott Lyall
Excursions of Pleasure: The Travel Writing of the Sobieski Stuarts
Craig Buchanan
The Rhetoric of Violence in Irvine Welsh’s Marabou Stork Nightmares
Nuri Batuhan Lüleci
The Eneados: Gavin Douglas’s Translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, edited by Priscilla Bawcutt with Ian C. Cunningham (review)
Kelsey Jackson Williams
The Narrative Grotesque in Medieval Scottish Poetry by Caitlin Flynn (review)
Kate Ash-Irisarri
Writing Black Scotland: Race, Nation and the Devolution of Black Britain by Joseph H. Jackson (review)
Liam Connell
The Gentle Shepherd, by Allan Ramsay, edited by Steve Newman and David McGuinness (review)
Jeff Strabone
Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland: Emergent Ecologies of a Nation by Susan Oliver (review)
Siobhan Maria Carroll
Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White by Monika Szuba (review)
Matthew Griffiths
Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland by Katherine H. Terrell (review)
Lucy R. Hinnie
Volume 15, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2023
Editorial
Rhona Brown, Scott Lyall
Muriel Spark’s Reception History in Hungary
Attila Dósa
Place, Poetry, and Politics: The Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Reception of Alexander Montgomerie’s The Cherrie and the Slae
Sebastiaan Verweij
Toby or not Toby: An Existential Reading of Ali Smith’s There But For The
Asghar Bikas, Ensiyeh Darzinejad, Farah Ghaderi
Poems Ascribed to Robert Burns (1801): Walter Scott, John Ballantyne, and ‘Contraband’ Burns
Patrick Scott
Representations of China in the Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid
Li Li, John Corbett
Volume 14, Number 2, Autumn/Winter 2022
Editorial
Rhona Brown and Scott Lyall
Beyond Outlander: Annie S. Swan and the Scottish Popular Romance Novel
Amy Burge
‘[M]aking pictures with words’: Liz Lochhead’s Ekphrastic Writing and Collaborative Practice
Nia Clark
‘The stream of life’s exhausted tide’: Breathlessness in Scott’s The Lady of the Lake
Hilary Clydesdale
William Dunbar and ‘London, thow art of townys a per se’: Attribution and Text (Priscilla Bawcutt, 1931–2021, in memoriam)
A. S. G. Edwards
Functions of Space and Place: On Being ‘Elsewhere’ in Margaret Oliphant’s Kirsteen
Dana Graham Lai
Once Again on Carlyle and Lucian
Alexander Jordan
Who is Jock O’ Hazeldean? The Various Lives of Walter Scott’s Folksong
Brian Murdoch
Unwrapping Henry Adamson’s Threnodie
David J. Parkinson
Representing Diversity in Black British Children’s Literature: Jackie Kay’s Strawgirl
Petra Tournay-Theodotou
John Galt and Utilitarianism
Pingting Zhang
Recovering Scottish History: John Hill Burton and Scottish National Identity in the Nineteenth Century by Craig Beveridge (review)
Catriona M. M. Macdonald
The International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century ed. by Leith Davis and Janet Sorensen (review)
Gerard Lee McKeever
Scottish Literature and World War I by David A. Rennie (review)
Fiona Paterson
The Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing ed. by Alessandra Petrina and Ian Johnson (review)
Francesca Pontini
Stuart Hood: Twentieth-Century Partisan ed. by David Hutchison and David Johnson (review)
Joseph Farrell
Volume 14, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2022
Special issue: Unforgettable, Unforgotten? Continuing the Recovery of Scottish Women Writers, c. 1880–1940
Lois Burke, Gemma King, Charlotte Lauder
‘Our poetry never lacks clearness if read in Gaelic’: Demystifying Gaelic and Anglo-Highland Women’s Writing in the Celtic Revival
Kate Louise Mathis, Eleanor Thomson
Fantastic Feminist Praxis: Consciousness-Raising in the Speculative Fiction of Lady Florence Dixie
Grace Borland Sinclair
‘Who were they?’: Recovering Jessie Annie Anderson as a Case Study of the Scottish Women Poets in Hugh MacDiarmid’s Northern Numbers (1920–22)
Charlotte Lauder
‘The End of Fiammetta, The Return of Banabhard’: Womanhood and Nationhood in Rachel Annand Taylor’s Aesthetic Poetry
Fiona Paterson
The Body-Minded Non-Normativity of Violet Jacob’s Temporal Others
Arianna Introna
‘Life for you would be a song’: The Political Poetry of Helen Crawfurd
Megan Holly Burns
Re-Evaluating Willa Muir’s ‘Mrs Muttoe and the Top Storey’ in Light of COVID-19 Labour Disparities
Emily Pickard
Volume 13, Number 2, Autumn/Winter 2021
Editorial
Rhona Brown, Scott Lyall
Narrative Strategy and Rebellion in Scott and Lermontov: The Black Dwarf and Vadim
Marina Elepova, Nataliya Beloshitskaya, Robert P. Irvine
Gavin Douglas’s ‘Ioyous discipline’ in The Palice of Honour
P. J. Klemp
Old Women, Dreams, and Reversed Revivals: Derick Thomson’s Gaelic Short Stories
Petra Johana Poncarová
Highland Flings and CAN CANs: Dances with Recommendation Culture
Claire Squires
Douglas Gifford’s Scott-land: From Enlightenment to Renaissance
Colin Kidd
James Hogg: Contributions to English, Irish, and American Periodicalsed. by Adrian Hunter (review)
Megan Coyer
George Lauder (1603–1670): Life and Writings by Alasdair A. MacDonald (review)
William Poole
Scottish Romanticism and Collective Memory in the British Atlanticby Kenneth McNeil (review)
Amy Wilcockson
Volume 13, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2021
Special issue: Mosques, Manses, Muirs, and ‘Moors’: Representations of Muslims and Islam in Scottish Culture
Manfred Malzahn, Silke Stroh
‘Fatall Turkes’ and the Limits of Epic: King James’s Lepanto (1591)
Jane Grogan
Islam and the Scottish Enlightenment
James Watt
Travels in Nowheria: James Bridie’s Some Talk of Alexander
Manfred Malzahn
Negotiations of Scottish Muslim Identities in the Fiction of Suhayl Saadi and Leila Aboulela
Jessica Homberg-Schramm
Poetry in Exile: An Interview with Iyad Hayatleh
Hannah Kershaw, Iyad Hayatleh
Palestinian Poetry in Scottish Translation: An Interview with Henry Bell and Sarah Irving
Joe Jackson, Henry Bell, Sarah Irving
Priscilla J. Bawcutt 1931–2021
Alasdair A. MacDonald
Volume 12, Number 2, Autumn/Winter 2020
Scottish Literary Review
Rhona Brown, Scott Lyall
Reading Ivanhoe in Midnight: Walter Scott and the Rise of Modern Chinese Fiction
Kang-Yen Chiu
Gendered Creativity: the Heroines of Count Robert of Paris
Anna Fancett
Bracket and Voice: Drummond of Hawthornden’s Lunular Poetics
Patrick Hart
Edwin Morgan’s Orientations
David Kinloch
Robert Burns’s ‘WR’ – The Writing-Master Revealed
Clark McGinn
Annie S. Swan, Publishing Phenomenon: A Book Historical Perspective
Gillian Neale
Tacitus, Hector Boece, and the Writing of Scottish History
John-Mark Philo
Some Archaeology on James Beattie’s The Minstrel (1771 and 1774)
Ian Cameron Robertson
Aileen Christianson 1944–2020
Glenda Norquay
John Manson 1932–2020
Alan Riach
Professor (Thomas) Douglas Macpharlain Gifford MA, PhD, FRSE 1940–2020
Gerard Carruthers
Statue: (i.m. Douglas Gifford)
Alan MacGillivray
Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786–1831 by Gerard Lee McKeever (review)
Daniel Cook
The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Nation by Scott Hames (review)
Cairns Craig
The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns: The Scots Musical Museum (Volume II and III) ed. by Murray Pittock (review)
Ainsley McIntosh
The Fin-De-Siècle Scottish Revival: Romance, Decadence and Celtic Identity by Michael Shaw (review)
Glenda Norquay
Volume 12, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2020
Scottish Literary Review
Rhona Brown, Scott Lyall
James Joyce and Walter Scott: Incest, Rivers of History, and ‘old useless papers’
Richard Barlow
Walter Scott’s First Chinese Critic – Mao Dun
Kang-Yen Chiu
Muriel Spark’s The Comforters from the Perspective of Intertextuality
Hongbin Dai, Xiying Liu
Thomas Carlyle and Lucian of Samosata
Alexander Jordan
Revisiting The Lady of the Lake: Walter Scott and the Representation of Scotland
Mary C. Nestor
Snake Women and Hideous Sensations: The Strange Case of Gaelic Detective Short Stories by Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar
Petra Johana Poncarová
‘Half Christian’: Indigenisation and Inculturation in Stevenson’s Pacific Fiction
L. M. Ratnapalan
L’Écosse à l’envers: Scotland’s Restoration Pamphleteer Thomas St Serfe
Jessica Reid
Robert Louis Stevenson and the Marriage Debate: ‘The Enchantress’ in Context
Lena Wånggren
Professor John (Jack) MacQueen: 1929–2019
Ian Brown
Dr Margery Palmer McCulloch: 1935–2019
Carla Sassi, Sarah Dunnigan
Volume 11, Number 2, Autumn/Winter 2019
Scottish Literary Review
Gerard Carruthers
Scottish Narratives of Sovereignty in the Later Middle Ages: Re-imagining ‘Fredome’
Lee Manion
A Note on Gavin Douglas’s Translation of Livy: The ‘mylky flud of eloquens’
John Mark Philo
The First Edition of Allan Ramsay’s Elegy on Maggy Johnston
Adam Fox
A Note on the Tail in Tam o’ Shanter
Ian C. Robertson
Chapbooks, Cheap Print, Burns, and Tannahill in the Nineteenth Century
Iain Beavan
The Scottish ‘Ploughman Poet’ Among the Bengali Intelligentsia: Appreciating Robert Burns in Colonial Bengal
Abhishek Sarkar
‘To Write Down the Whole Particulars’: Narrative Competence in R. L. Stevenson’s Medical Doctors
Christy Difrances Remein
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Americanisms
Michael Adams
The Poem as Labyrinth: An Exploration of Hugh MacDiarmid’s ‘The Glass of Pure Water’
John Manson
Post-Leftism: Contesting Neoliberal Consensus in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting
Louisa Shen
Robert Burns and the United States of America: Poetry, Print, and Memory 1786–1866 by Arun Sood (review)
Corey E. Andrews
Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846: Living an Antislavery Life by Alasdair Pettinger (review)
Celeste-Marie Bernier
The International Companion to Scottish Literature 1400–1650 ed. by Nicola Royan (review)
Janet Hadley Williams
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Impressions: Photography and Travel Writing, 1888–1894 by Carla Manfredi (review)
Glenda Norquay
Modernism and Scottish Theatre Since 1969: A Revolution on Stage by Mark Brown (review)
Trish Reid
Muriel Spark, Existentialism and the Art of Death by Cairns Craig (review)
Marilyn Reizbaum
Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh’s Civic Development, 1660–1750 by Murray Pittock (review)
Tara Thomson
Volume 11, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2019
Scottish Literary Review
Gerard Carruthers
The common thread: Winner of the W. S. Graham competition for schools in Inverclyde
Christie Mulaghton
Thomas Cumming and William Leechman: An Early Spat for the ‘Fighting Quaker’
Melvyn New, Robert G. Walker
Walter Scott and Hospitality: Theory and Practice
Kang-Yen Chiu
MacDiarmid’s Burns: The Political Context, 1917–1928
Paul Malgrati
Locating and Vindicating Josephine Tey’s Detective Fiction
Andrew Monnickendam
The Reception of Muriel Spark in Spain
Tomás Monterrey
‘The flowers of the forest are a’ wede away’: The Dispersal of a Familiar Refrain
Corey Gibson
History, Slavery, and The Phantom in Alice Thompson’s Pharos
Linda Tym
Violence and Identity Conflicts in Two Contemporary Scottish and Egyptian Novels
Jihan Zakarriya
Digital-Only Special Edition, 2019
Scottish Literary Review: Editorial
Gerard Carruthers
Montrose and Modern Memory: the literary after-life of the first marquis of Montrose
Catriona M. M. MacDonald
Allan Ramsay and Edinburgh: Commemoration in the City of Forgetting
Craig Lamont
‘A vast o’ bits o’ stories’: Shortreed, Laidlaw and Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
Lucy Macrae
Untrammelled by Theory: Susan Ferrier’s Polyphonic Vision of Scotland and the Union in Marriage
Benjamine Toussaint
The place of history, literature and politics in the 1911 Scottish Exhibition
Neil G. W. Curtis
George Mackay Brown’s Marian Apocrypha: Iconography and Enculturation in Time in a Red Coat
Linden Bicket
Angels, Dancers, Mermaids: The Hidden History of Peckham in Muriel Spark’s The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Jan Gorak
‘Daughter of an Outcast Queen’ – Defying State Expectations in Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon
Fiona McCulloch
Volume 10, Number 2, Autumn/Winter 2018
Editorial
Catriona M. M. Macdonald
Whim and Whipping: Satire and the Great Reform Act in Scottish Periodical Poetry
Michael Shaw
Scottish Compositor Poets and the Typographical Trade Press, 1850–1880
David Finkelstein
‘Whose cry is Liberty, and Fatherland’: Kossuth, Garibaldi and European Nationalism in Scottish Political Poetry
Kirstie Blair
‘A great weyahaerin’?: Popular Poetry, the Press, and Women’s Suffrage in Scotland
Sean Murphy
Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy (review)
Corey E. Andrews
The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence by Cairns Craig (review)
Richard Barlow
Contemporary British Children’s Fiction and Cosmopolitanism by Fiona McCulloch (review)
Sarah Dunnigan
A History of the Scottish Novel by Wang Weixin et al. (review)
Kang-yen Chiu
The Kilmarnock Burns: A Census by Allan Young and Patrick Scott (review)
Craig Lamont
Literature of the Gaelic Landscape: Song, Poem and Tale by John Murray (review)
Wilson McLeod
Literature and Union: Scottish Texts, British Contexts ed. by Gerard Carruthers and Colin Kidd (review)
Alex Thomson
The International Companion to John Galt ed. by Gerard Carruthers and Colin Kidd (review)
Katie Trumpener
The Publishing and Marketing of Illustrated Literature in Scotland, 1760–1825 by Sandro Jung (review)
Helen Williams
Gendering Walter Scott: Sex, Violence and Romantic Period Writing by C. M. Jackson-Houlston (review)
Yanxu Chen
Volume 10, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2018
Editorial
Murray Pittock
‘Hodden-Gray’: Pastoral, Enlightenment Re-Mediation, and The Proverbial Allan Ramsay
Steve Newman
‘The Book of Maybees is very Braid’: Ramsay’s Collection of Scots Proverbs and Enlightenment Print Culture
Ronnie Young
Ramsay’s Musical Sources: Reconstructing a Poet’s Musical Memory
David McGuinness, Aaron McGregor
‘In Bawdy Policy Well-Gifted’: Allan Ramsay, Bawdry and the Reformation of Manners
Pauline Mackay
The Afterlives of Allan Ramsay in the British Periodical Press, 1720–1870
Rhona Brown
Allan Ramsay and Edinburgh: Commemoration in the City of Forgetting
Craig Lamont
‘Horace’s Letter of Invitation’: A Newly Discovered Horatian Imitation by Allan Ramsay
Stuart Gillespie
In Memory of Catherine Kerrigan (1939-2017)
Margaret A. Mackay, Margery Palmer McCulloch
Volume 9, Number 2, Autumn/Winter 2017
Kangaroos and Cockatoos: Gaelic Literature in the Nineteenth-Century Antipodes
Sheila M. Kidd
Bobby Burns on the Wallaby: Scottish Literature and Antipodean Labour
Dougal McNeill
To Mary in Aotearoa: Burns’s ‘Thou Ling’ring Star’ and Scottish Identity in New Zealand
Nikki Hessell, Stephen Clothier
Scottish Histories: Robert Greene’s James the Fourth (c. 1590) in the Light (and Shadow) of David Lyndsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis(1552)1
Richard Hillman
‘Sir, Yours this moment I unseal’: A Burns Manuscript Rediscovered in Paisley
Craig Lamont, David Weir
Scotland and Beyond: Eric Linklater’s Cosmopolitan Imagination
Bernard Sellin
The Comic Uncanny in Muriel Spark’s Memento Mori
Elizabeth Anne Weston
Construction and Demolition: Dissecting the Concept of Home in Three Devolutionary Plays
András Beck
George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination by Linden Bicket (review)
Timothy C. Baker
The Celtic Unconscious: Joyce and Scottish Culture by Richard Barlow (review)
John Brannigan
Community in Modern Scottish Literature ed. by Scott Lyall (review)
Michael Gardiner
Sir Walter Scott: A Life in Story by Eileen Dunlop (review)
Alison Lumsden
The Fiction of Robin Jenkins: Some Kind of Grace ed. by Douglas Gifford and Linden Bicket (review)
Manfred Malzahn
The Voice of the People: Hamish Henderson and Scottish Cultural Politics by Corey Gibson (review)
Alan Riach
The International Companion to James Macpherson and The Poems of Ossian ed. by Dafydd Moore (review)
Fiona Stafford
Reappraising Jane Duncan: Sexuality, Race and Colonialism in the My Friends Novels by Rita Rippetoe (review)
Katharine Woods
Editorial
Gerard Carruthers, Liam McIlvanney
Volume 9, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2017
Searching for True Felicity: Some Masterpieces of Early Scottish Religious Poetry1
Alasdair A. Macdonald
John Bellenden’s Livy and the Tools of Translation
John-Mark Philo
Chapmen in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Vivienne Dunstan
Two Neglected Poets of Late Victorian Scotland: John Luby and James Lynch
Raymond Mccluskey, Linden Bicket
The Chandeliers of the Metropole: A Vivid Glow Upon the Just and the Unjust in Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat1
Robert Ellis Hosmer Jr.
Harmonic Monads: Reading Contemporary Scottish Fiction through the Enlightenment
Timothy C. Baker
Alexander Wilson’s Manuscript Notebook: A Scottish Poet in America, 1801-1803
Gerard Carruthers, George Smith
Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack: 3 April 1941-14 December 2016
Murray Pittock
Scottish Literary Review
Gerard Carruthers
Locating Valerie Gillies’s The Cream of the Well: A Critical Introduction to the Poems and an Interview with the Poet
Laura Severin
Volume 8, Number 2, Autumn/Winter 2016
Counselling the Counsellors: Sir David Lyndsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis
Doyeeta Majumder
Burns’s Tales of ‘Aloway Kirk’ and Romantic Short Fiction
Gerard Lee McKeever
James Hogg’s The Profligate Princes: An unconventional treatment of Scottish female sexuality in Romantic writing for the theatre
Barbara Leonardi
The Mother’s Word: Maternity and Writing in Walter Scott
Anna Fancett
A Man of Many Depths – Hugh Miller and The Cruise of the Betsey
Alexander Hay
Looking Both Ways – A Lefebvrian Investigation of Catherine Carswell’s Open the Door!
Claudia Rosenhan
O. Douglas and the Aesthetics of the Ordinary
Juliet Shields
The First Irish Edition of Robert Burns: A Reexamination
Patrick Scott, Craig Lamont
Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Revolutionary Writer by William K. Malcolm, and: Lewis Grassic Gibbon: The Reader by ed. William K. Malcolm (review)
Margery Palmer McCulloch
The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon ed. by Scott Lyall (review)
Dougal McNeill
The Maitland Quarto: A New Edition of Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library MS 1408 ed. by Joanna M. Martin (review)
Lucy R. Hinnie
The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland: Manuscript Production and Transmission, 1560–1625 by Sebastiaan Verweij (review)
Deirdre Serjeantson
James Orr, Poet and Irish Radical by Carol Baraniuk (review)
Crawford Gribben
Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment by Matthew Wickman (review)
Robert Irvine
Playing Games of Sense in Edwin Morgan’s Writing by Monika Kocot (review)
David Kinloch
Écrire la frontière, Walter Scott, ou les chemins de I’errance by Céline Sabiron (review)
Janette McLeman-Carnie
James Hogg and British Romanticism. A Kaleidoscopic Art by Meiko O’Halloran (review)
Silvia Mergenthal
Robert Louis Stevenson by David Robb (review)
Duncan Milne
Culloden by Murray Pittock (review)
Daniel Szechi
Scottish Literary Review
Gerard Carruthers
The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks: A Critical Introduction by Simone Caroti (review)
Caroline McCracken-Flesher
Volume 8, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2016
British Literature: The Career of a Concept
Colin Kidd
Scots and English Across the Union: Linguistic Connexions and Contrast
Jeremy Smith
Untrammelled by Theory: Susan Ferrier’s Polyphonic Vision of Scotland and the Union in Marriage
Benjamine Toussaint
It’s Not About 1707: Patrick Edward Dove and the Scottish Sonderweg
James Coleman
Scotland, ‘Greater Britain’, and the Kailyardic Contra(-)diction
Sean Murphy
The Exportation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon
William K. Malcolm
Words as Music/Music as Words: The Bagpipe and Kirsty Gunn’s The Big Music (2012)
Vivien Williams
The Bard and The Minstrel
Ian C. Robertson
Scottish Literary Review
Gerard Carruthers
Volume 7, Number 2, Autumn/Winter 2015
A Symposium. Jane Millgate: The Making of Scholarship
Tara Ghoshal, Ian Duncan, Peter Garside, David Hewitt, J. H. Alexander, Caroline McCracken-Flesher
Things and the Archive: Scott’s Materialist Legacy
Ann Rigney
All Ye Know on Earth, and All Ye Need to Know
David Hewitt
Pickling Virgil?: Scott’s Notes to The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Gillian Hughes
Larder and Library: Revising Archives in Castle Dangerous
Nancy Moore Goslee
Anxiety in the Archive: From the Antiquary to the Absent Author
Caroline McCracken-Flesher
‘A vast o’ bits o’ stories’: Shortreed, Laidlaw and Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
Lucy Macrae
We Did Not Think That He Could Die: Letitia Elizabeth Landon and the Afterlife of Scott’s Heroines
Julie Watt
Hunting for Walter Scott
Deirdre Shepherd
The Literature of Shetland by Mark Ryan Smith (review)
Linda Andersson Burnett
Reading Robert Burns: Texts, Contexts, Transformations by Carol McGuirk (review)
Corey E. Andrews
Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds ed. by Camille Manfred (review)
Alistair Braidwood
The Lily and the Thistle: The French Tradition and the Older Literature of Scotland – Essays in Criticism by William Calin (review)
Elizabeth Elliott
Scotland and the Caribbean, c. 1740-1833: Atlantic Archipelagos by Michael Morris (review)
Joe Jackson
Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726–1832 ed. by Megan J. Coyer and David E. Shuttleton (review)
Caroline McCracken-Flesher
The Space of Fiction: Voices from Scotland in a Post-Devolution Age by Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon (review)
Matt McGuire
Escritoras escocesas en la nueva literatura nacional by Carla Rodríguez González and Kirsten Matthews (review)
Andrew Monnickendam
Pointed Encounters: Dance in Post-Culloden Scottish Literature by Anne McKee Stapleton (review)
Pam Perkins
Contemporary Scottish Gothic: Mourning, Authenticity, and Tradition by Timothy C. Baker (review)
Neil Syme
Kathleen Jamie: Essays and Poems on Her Work ed. by Rachel Falconer (review)
Fiona Wilson
Gerard Carruthers, Alison Lumsden
Volume 7, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2015
The First Publication of ‘Holy Willie’s Prayer’
Patrick Scott
Better Dead: J. M. Barrie’s First Book and the Shilling Fiction Market
Andrew Nash
The place of history, literature and politics in the 1911 Scottish Exhibition
Neil G. W. Curtis
The Ecology of Iain Crichton Smith’s ‘High Hills’
Jon Sanders
James Kelman’s Melancholic Politics
Carole Jones
‘Daughter of an Outcast Queen’ – Defying State Expectations in Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon
Fiona McCulloch
Illustrated Glasgow Editions of Robert Burns’s Poems, 1800–1802
Sandro Jung
The Year’s Publications for 2014: A Selected List
Scottish Literary Review
Gerard Carruthers
Volume 6, Number 2, Autumn/Winter 2014
Translation, Power and Gender in Thomas Hudson’s Historie of Judith
Sergi Mainer
James Morison, Book Illustration and The Poems of Robert Burns (1812)
Sandro Jung
Peatland and the Ulster-Scottish Culture of North-East Ireland in Thomas Beggs’s Rathlin
David Gray
Politics and Art: James Kelman’s Not Not While the Giro
Richard Lansdown
‘[You can’t kill me]’: Scottish Identity and the Anglo-Scottish Union in David Greig’s Dunsinane
Sila Şenlen Güvenç
‘Two Syllables Only’: Hailes, Mallet and Scottish literary anxiety in the age of Enlightenment
Mark McLean
Thomas Crawford 1920–2014
J. Derrick McClure
The Scottish Sixties: Reading, Rebellion, Revolution? Edited by Eleanor Bell and Linda Gunn (review)
Andrew Blaikie
Celtic Shakespeare: The Bard and the Borderers Edited by Willy Maley and Rory Loughnane (review)
Dermot Cavanagh
Robert Fergusson and the Scottish Periodical Press by Rhona Brown (review)
Robert Crawford
Applauding Thunder: Life, Work and Critics of Alexander Smith by Simon Berry (review)
Lesley Graham
James Kelman: Politics and Aesthetics by Aaron Kelly (review)
Scott Hames
The Edinburgh Companion to Liz Lochhead Edited by Anne Varty (review)
Ksenija Horvat
Nation and Nationalism Edited by Alistair McCleery (review)
Davis Moses
A New Race of Men: Scotland 1815–1914 by Michael Fry (review)
Alan Riach
Scottish Theatre: Diversity, Language, Continuity by Ian Brown (review)
Anne Varty
Scottish Literary Review
Gerard Carruthers
Volume 6, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2014
Montrose and Modern Memory: the literary after-life of the first marquis of Montrose
Catriona M. M. MacDonald
Angels, Dancers, Mermaids: The Hidden History of Peckham in Muriel Spark’s The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Jan Gorak
Invisible Ink: Links and Continuities in Douglas Dunn’s Oeuvre
Attila Dósa
Changing Perspectives: Translations of Scottish Twentieth-Century Poetry into German
Susanne Hagemann
‘I may perhaps have said this’: Samuel Johnson and Newhailes Library
Robert L. Betteridge
A Note on Walter Scott & Irish Literature
Lindsay Levy
Professor Susan Manning 1953–2013
Penny Fielding
Professor G. Ross Roy 1924–2013
Ronnie Young
Dr Kenneth Simpson 1943–2013
Patrick Scott
The Year’s Publications for 2013: A Selected List
The John Galt Society
Ian McGhee, Gerry Carruthers
Editorial
Gerard Carruthers
Volume 5, Number 2, Autumn/Winter 2013
From Midden Fecht to Civil War: Drummond of Hawthornden’s Polemo-Middinia
David Stevenson
The Love Songs and Love Lyrics of Robert Burns and John Clare
Adam White
George Mackay Brown’s Marian Apocrypha: Iconography and Enculturation in Time in a Red Coat
Linden Bicket
The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature ed. by Gerard Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney (review)
Robert Irvine
The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women’s Writing ed. by Glenda Norquay (review)
Dorothy McMillan
Picturing Scotland through the Waverley Novels: Walter Scott and the Origins of the Victorian Illustrated Novel by Richard J. Hill (review)
Ainsley McIntosh
The Correspondence of Samuel Thomson (1766-1816) ed. by Jennifer Orr (review)
Kathryn White
John Galt: Observations and Conjectures on Literature, History, and Society ed. by Regina Hewitt (review)
Ainsley McIntosh
Politics and Genre in the Works of Elizabeth Hamilton, 1756-1816 by Claire Grogan (review)
Pam Perkins
Scotland and the 19th-Century World ed. by Gerard Carruthers, David Goldie and Alastair Renfrew (review)
Matthew Wickman
Barrie, Hook, and Peter Pan: Studies in Contemporary Myth: Estudios sobre un mito contemporáneo ed. by Alfonso Muñoz Corcuera and Elisa T. Di Biase (review)
Kirsten Stirling, Isis Giraldo
Scottish Literary Review
Sarah Dunnigan, Margery Palmer McCulloch, Ian Brown
Volume 5, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2013
A Note on Sir William Alexander and Edmund Waller
David Reid
Robert Burns and Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski: A Translatological Investigation into the Mystery of ‘I dream’d I lay’
Krzysztof Fordoński
‘Luve’s arcane delirium’: A Reading of Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Under the Eildon Tree
Richie McCaffery
From Slate to Jupiter: Poetic Patterns of Edwin Morgan’s Sonnets from Scotland
Slawomir Wacior
Liz Lochhead Translated: A First Bibliography
Susanne Hagemann
Re-representing Representations in Janice Galloway’s Foreign Parts
Ewa Szymańska-Sabala
Tartan Noir, or, Hard-Boiled Heidegger
Matthew Wickman
John Burnside’s Living Nowhere as Industrial Fiction
H. Gustav Klaus
Review Essay: Writers on Scottish Independence
Alex Thomson
The Year’s Publications for 2012: A Selected List
Alexander Cuthbert
Scottish Literary Review
Margery Palmer McCulloch, Sarah M. Dunnigan