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A range of leading international scholars provide the reader with a comprehensive and accessible ...

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) is today known almost exclusively for one work: Peter Pan. Yet he was th...

Between 1400 and 1650 Scotland underwent a series of drastic changes, in court, culture, and reli...

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The nineteenth century saw the romanticisation of the Highlander, the rise of tartanry and the em...

The notion of 'freedom' has long been associated with a number of perceptions deemed fundamental ...

In 1810 a literary phenomenon swept through Britain, Europe and beyond: the publication of Sir Wa...

This volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children's lite...

John Galt (1779–1839) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen, and a friend and bi...

James Macpherson’s 'Poems of Ossian', first published from 1760 as Fragments of Ancient Poetry, w...

George MacDonald (1824-1905) is the acknowledged forefather of later fantasy writers such as C. S...

Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) is one of the giants of modern poetry. Scotland's national poet from 200...

The period from 1650 to 1800 encompasses the Restoration, the 1688 Revolution, the failure of the...

The nineteenth century has been regarded as an era of decline for Scottish literature. This INTER...

The experiences of being Christian and living amid a culture shaped by various iterations of Chri...

Scotland's sense of national identity and cultural distinctiveness has long been articulated thro...

The work of Scottish authors writing for children has often been subsumed into the category of Br...