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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Longman Literature in English Series -- Author's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- 1 Terms of Reference: Patriotism and Change -- Scottish Identity and Tradition -- Patriotism and criticism -- The view from Bàrr Mòr -- The stereotypes -- The democratic strain -- The Caledonian antisyzygy -- Change, the canon and 1707 -- Scotland, Britain and the end, perhaps, of paranoia -- 2 Union and Enlightenment -- Views of the Union -- The Presbyterian inheritance -- The Enlightenment: David Hume and Adam Smith -- Sympathy, imagination and common sense: the Byronic synthesis -- Writing by women: realism, reticence and determination -- 3 Satire, Sentiment and Scots -- Smollett's medicinal comedy -- Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling -- Poetry in Scots: Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson -- Attitudes to the Scots language -- 4 Robert Burns: the Myth and the Gift -- 'Auld lang syne' -- The myth -- Sources of the gift -- Love, nature, sex -- Satire -- 5 Sir Walter Scott and the Supreme Fiction -- Fame and fortune -- Ballads and romances: problems of the long poem -- The novelist -- The Heart of Midlothian -- Scott's appeal then and now -- 6 Calvin's Scottish Devil, the End of Rural Sleep and Practical Christianity -- James Hogg, 'the Ettrick Shepherd' -- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner -- John Galt: theoretical history -- Susan Ferrier: pride, prejudice and Christianity -- 7 Didacts and Doomsters: Nineteenth-Century Prophecy, Fantasy and Nightmare -- Thomas Carlyle and the condition of 'England' -- George MacDonald: spiritual geology -- Margaret Oliphant: woman's place and God's supervision -- Poets of apocalypse: James (Β. V.) Thomson and John Davidson -- 8 Robert Louis Stevenson and the War in the Members The figure, RLS: from proto-hippy to Tusitala -- The making of a stylist -- The moralist -- Jekyll and Hyde -- 9 Tragedy, Epic and Entertainment: Early Twentieth-Century Fiction -- Tragedy: George Douglas Brown and John Macdougall Hay -- Epic fantasy: David Lindsay -- Epic self: Catherine Carswell -- Epic earth: Neil M. Gunn and Lewis Grassic Gibbon -- Epic austerity: A Scots Quair -- The entertainers: Conan Doyle, John Buchan and others -- 10 'Whaur's yer Wullie Shakespeare?' The Return of Scottish Drama -- The failure of J. M. Barrie and the success of Peter Pan -- Good intentions: playwrights of the Scottish Renaissance -- Doctor dominie: James Bridie -- 7:84, politics, protest and patter -- 11 Poets of the Scottish Renaissance from Hugh MacDiarmid to Edwin Morgan -- Hugh MacDiarmid: reading the stones -- Edwin Muir and George Mackay Brown: Orcadian wayside stations -- Two Gaels: Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain) and Iain Crichton Smith (Iain Mac a'Ghobhainn) -- Three stylists: Norman MacCaig -- W. S. Graham -- Douglas Dunn -- Poems and spaceships: Edwin Morgan -- 12 Post-war Fiction: Realism, Violence and Magic -- Post-war pibroch: James Kennaway -- Tangents: Robin Jenkins and Muriel Spark -- Realisms: Alan Sharp, Hugh C. Rae, William McIlvanney, James Kelman and others -- Uses of violence: Frederic Lindsay -- Virtuoso on a limb: Allan Massie -- Mutability and magic: Alasdair Gray -- Player of games: Iain Banks -- Chronology -- General Bibliographies -- i) Bibliographies and reference guides -- ii) Literary, historical and cultural backgrounds -- iii) History and criticism -- iv) Anthologies -- Individual Authors -- Notes on biography, major works, and criticism -- Index
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