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The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns explores the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national 'bard', Robert Burns (1759-96).
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Robert Burns
Treasury of 43 works: The Cotter’s Saturday Night, To a Mountain Daisy, To a Mouse, To a Louse, Tam o’ Shanter, Comin’ Thro’ the Rye, many more. Lists of titles…
In time for Burns Night (the annual celebration of Scottish culture that takes place on January 25, the birthday of Robert Burns) comes a sweeping literary tour of Scotland from…
Gerard Carruthers
Gerard Carruthers’ SCOTNOTE study guide focuses on three novels: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Master of Ballantrae, and The Ebb-Tide. Suitable for senior school pupils…
A comprehensive overview of Burns’ entire poetic career emphasizing his construction of his role as a poet and his relationship to literary and intellectual history. This book treats Burns’ work…
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This comprehensive guide to Scottish Literature combines detailed literary history with discussion of contemporary debates about Scottishness.
In this comprehensive introduction to Robert Burns detailed commentary on the artistry and critical contexts of his work is complemented by material on the cultural reception and afterlife of this…
The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns provides detailed commentary on the artistry of Burns, complemented by material on the cultural reception and afterlife of this most iconic of world writers…
Scotland has produced poetry that is patriotic, that paints landscapes, people and situations, that speaks to personal matters, and those equally everyday matters pertaining to the mind and to the…
A beautiful Pocket Classics collection of stories by great Scottish writers past and present
Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from an entrancingly literary land. Scotland is known…
G Carruthers
A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of…
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This book is an outcome of the year-long commemoration, in 2015, of the 250th anniversary of Muir’s birth. It includes tributes by Alex Salmond, Sir Tom Devine and others, and…
These essays offer fresh insight into the life and work of Muriel Spark (1918-2006). Looking at the cultural, literary, religious and personal frameworks that shaped her writing, The Crooked Dividend…
John Galt (1779-1839) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen, and a friend and biographer of Lord Byron. This INTERNATIONAL COMPANION examines Galt’s writings in the social…
This book is unashamedly aimed at a wider market than the ordinary academic volume, as it seeks to extend the impact of the research it contains, making it available to…
This Companion offers a unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period to the post-devolution present. A chronology and guides to…
This volume provides a fresh perspective on the ways in which writers have dealt with the relationship between literature and union, especially in Scottish literary contexts. It interrogates, from various…
This book explores the way in which British Romantic writers responded to the national and cultural identities of the ‘four nations’ England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The essays collected here…
Sir Walter Scott
This is the first publication of Reliquiae Trotcosienses.
The 1820 Scottish Rising has been increasingly studied in recent decades. This collection of essays looks especially at local players on the ground across multiple regional centres in the west…
The complexity of print culture in Britain between the seventeenth and nineteenth century is investigated in these wide-ranging articles.
Edward H. Burtt, Jr.
This book examines the power of cross-disciplinary thinking. Alexander Wilson was a published poet, an accomplished musician, a skilled artist and an insightful observer. All these skills came together in…
A beautiful and varied collection of stories by the best Scottish writers, past and present.
Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the…
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