An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland, from the Thirty Years' War to the present day

This is a study of Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided by urban studies theory, it pinpoints the distinctive features that made Enlightenment in the…

This is the first and only guide to Scottish Romanticism. It captures the best of critical debate as well as presenting exciting new approaches to a distinctively Scottish Romanticism in…

In a challenge to existing accounts of Romanticism, Murray Pittock provides a broad re-reading of British Romanticism. Locating Scottish and Irish Romantic writing in the wider context of the British…

This book questions assumptions about the Augustan era through an exploration of Jacobite ideology in canonical and non-canonical literature. The ‘four nations’ literary history emerges, defined in terms of a…

This volume explores the vibrancy of modern Scottish literature in all its forms and languages. Giving full credit to writing in Gaelic and by the Scottish diaspora, it brings together…