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

Notes on Contributors

Editorial
Rhona Brown, Scott Lyall

Excursions of Pleasure: The Travel Writing of the Sobieski Stuarts
Craig Buchanan

Canonicity, Caskets and Early Modern Scottish Women’s Writing: Recontextualising the Casket Sonnets, attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots, alongside the poetry of Anne Lock and Elizabeth Melville
Emily Hay

The Rhetoric of Violence in Irvine Welsh’s Marabou Stork Nightmares
Nuri Batuhan Lüleci

Robert Louis Stevenson and Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Literary Relations at the Fin de Siècle by Katherine Ashley (review)
Michael Shaw

Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms by Richard Alan Barlow (review)
Alan Riach

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

Peter’s Letters to his Kinfolk, by John Gibson Lockhart; edited by Peter Garside and Gillian Hughes (review)
Sarah Sharp

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

Notes on Contributors

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

Notes on Contributors

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

The Sonic Dis-ordering of Aesthetic Structure in Wallace Stevens’s ‘The Idea of Order at Key West’ and John Burnside’s The Dumb House
Ian Tan

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

Notes on Contributors

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

The Young Woman and Scotland: The Late-Victorian Writings of Ethel Forster Heddle and Isabella Fyvie Mayo in Girls’ Print Culture
Lois Burke

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

‘Ghosts of the Future’: Elegiac Temporalities and Planetary Futures in Nancy Brysson Morrison’s The Gowk Storm
Julia Ditter

Re-Evaluating Willa Muir’s ‘Mrs Muttoe and the Top Storey’ in Light of COVID-19 Labour Disparities
Emily Pickard

Notes on Contributors

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

An Ubhal as Àirde / The Highest Apple: An Anthology of Scottish Gaelic Literature ed. by Wilson McLeod and Michael Newton (review)
Emma Dymock

The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns: The Scots Musical Museum (Volume II and III) ed. by Murray Pittock (review)
Ainsley McIntosh

Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks, and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s: The Author Incorporated by Glenda Norquay (review)
Duncan Milne

The Fin-De-Siècle Scottish Revival: Romance, Decadence and Celtic Identity by Michael Shaw (review)
Glenda Norquay

Notes on Contributors

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

Notes on Contributors

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

Yes Scotland?: The Political Ecologies of the Borders in Walter Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and Lay of the Last Minstrel, and in Contemporary Scottish Poetry
Julia C. Obert

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 Land of Story-Books: Scottish Children’s Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century ed. by Sarah Dunnigan and Shu-Fang Lai (review)
Matthew Grenby

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

Paolozzi at Large in Edinburgh: Artworks and Creative Responses ed. by Christine De Luca and Carlo Pirozzi (review)
Carla Sassi

Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh’s Civic Development, 1660–1750 by Murray Pittock (review)
Tara Thomson

Notes on Contributors

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

‘Your vocation is marriage’: Systematic Colonisation, The Marriage Plot and Finding Home in Catherine Helen Spence’s Clara Morison (1854)
Sarah Sharp

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

Performance, Theatrical Engagement and Ambivalence in Two Stage Representations of Scottish Soldiering
Ian Brown

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

Notes on Contributors

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

Editorial
Catriona M. M. Macdonald

Whim and Whipping: Satire and the Great Reform Act in Scottish Periodical Poetry
Michael Shaw

Remembering the ‘Radical Laird’: George Kinloch as Local Hero in Nineteenth Century Scottish Reform Poetry
Erin Farley

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

Notes on Contributors

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

James Robertson’s Poems of Allan Ramsay (1802) and the Adaptation of Other Scottish Booksellers’ Book Illustrations of the Works of Ramsay
Sandro Jung

‘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

Notes on Contributors

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

The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture ed. by Ralph McLean, Ronnie Young and Kenneth Simpson (review)
Ian Duncan

Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination: Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900 by Silke Stroh (review)
Emma Dymock

Community in Modern Scottish Literature ed. by Scott Lyall (review)
Michael Gardiner

Thomas Muir of Huntershill: Essays for the Twenty-First Century ed. by Gerard Carruthers and Don Martin (review)
Colin Kidd

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

Inspiring Views from “a’ the airts” on Scottish Literatures, Art & Cinema: The First World Congress of Scottish Literatures in Glasgow 2014 ed. by Klaus Peter Müller, Ilka Schwittlinsky, and Ron Walker (review)
Silke Stroh

Reappraising Jane Duncan: Sexuality, Race and Colonialism in the My Friends Novels by Rita Rippetoe (review)
Katharine Woods

Editorial
Gerard Carruthers, Liam McIlvanney

Notes on Contributors

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

Notes on Contributors

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

Barbour’s Bruce and its Cultural Contexts: Politics, Chivalry and Literature in Late Medieval Scotland ed. by Steve Boardman and Susan Foran (review)
Sergi Mainer

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

Crimelights: Scottish Crime Writing – Then and Now ed. by Frauke Reitemeier and Kirsten Sandrock (review)
Anne Schwan

Culloden by Murray Pittock (review)
Daniel Szechi

Scottish Culture: Dialogue and Self-Expression ed. by Aniela Korzeniowska and Izabela Szymañska (review)
Kate Turner

The International Companion to Edwin Morgan ed. by Alan Riach, and: The Midnight Letterbox: Selected Correspondence, 1950–2010 Edwin Morgan (review)
Attila Dósa

Scottish Literary Review
Gerard Carruthers

The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks: A Critical Introduction by Simone Caroti (review)
Caroline McCracken-Flesher

Notes on Contributors

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

Notes on Contributors

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

Gael and Lowlander in Scottish Literature: Cross-Currents in Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Christopher MacLachlan and Ronald W. Renton (review)
Emma Dymock

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

Before Blackwood’s: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment ed. by Alex Benchimol, Rhona Brown and David Shuttleton (review)
Andrew Noble

Pointed Encounters: Dance in Post-Culloden Scottish Literature by Anne McKee Stapleton (review)
Pam Perkins

Facets of Scottish Identity ed. by Izabela Szymańska and Aniela Korzeniowska, and: Scotland in Europe/Europe in Scotland. Links-Dialogues-Analogies ed. by Aniela Korzeniowska and Izabela Szymańsk (review)
Kirsten Sandrock

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

Scottish Literary Review

Gerard Carruthers, Alison Lumsden

Notes on Contributors

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

Notes on Contributors

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

The International Writers’ Conference Revisited: Edinburgh, 1962 Edited by Angela Bartie and Eleanor Bell (review)
Chris Gair

Within and Without Empire: Scotland Across the (Post)colonial Borderline Edited by Carla Sassi and Theo van Heijnsbergen (review)
Dougal McNeill

Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives Edited by Michael Gardiner, Graeme Macdonald and Niall O’Gallagher (review)
Carla Sassi

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

Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory by Evan Gottlieb, and: The Life of Sir Walter Scott by John Macrone Edited by Daniel Grader (review)
Andrew Lincoln

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

Errata

Scottish Literary Review
Gerard Carruthers

Notes on Contributors

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

Notes on Contributors

Reflections on Staging Sir David Lyndsay’s Satire of the Three Estates at Linlithgow Palace, June 2013
Greg Walker

‘He is ane Haly Freir’: The Freiris of Berwik, The Summoner’s Tale, and the Tradition of Anti-Fraternal Satire
David Salter

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

Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era by Karen McAulay (review)
John Purser

Robert Burns & Friends: Essays by W. Ormiston Roy Fellows presented to G. Ross Roy ed. by Patrick Scott and Kenneth Simpson (review)
Pauline Mackay

Picturing Scotland through the Waverley Novels: Walter Scott and the Origins of the Victorian Illustrated Novel by Richard J. Hill (review)
Ainsley McIntosh

The Novels of Walter Scott and his Literary Relations: Mary Brunton, Susan Ferrier and Christian Johnstone by Andrew Monnickendam (review)
Tony Jarrells

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

Dear Grieve: Letters to Hugh MacDiarmid (C. M. Grieve) ed. by John Manson, and: The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid ed. by Scott Lyall and Margery Palmer McCulloch (review)
Patrick Crotty

Scottish Literary Review
Sarah Dunnigan, Margery Palmer McCulloch, Ian Brown

Notes on Contributors

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

Notes on Contributors