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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface viii
4. 1 Changing Cultures: The History of Scotland since 1918 1
5. 2 Notes on a Small Country: Scotland’s Geography since 1918 11
6. 3 Resistance to Monolinguality: The Languages of Scotland since 1918 21
7. 4 The International Reception and Literary Impact of Scottish Literature of the Period since 1918 31
8. 5 The Criticism of Scottish Literature: Tradition, Decline and Renovation 42
9. 6 Literature and the Screen Media since 1908 53
10. 7 Material Culture in Modern Scotland 64
11. 8 Sir James Frazer and Marian McNeill 69
12. 9 Hugh MacDiarmid 75
13. 10 Edwin and Willa Muir: Scottish, European and Gender Journeys, 1918–69 84
14. 11 ‘To Get Leave to Live’: Negotiating Regional Identity in the Literature of North-East Scotland 95
15. 12 Disorientation of Place, Time and ‘Scottishness’: Conan Doyle, Linklater, Gunn, Mackay Brown and Elphinstone 106
16. 13 Past and Present: Modern Scottish Historical Fiction 114
17. 14 Tradition and Modernity: Gaelic Bards in the Twentieth Century 130
18. 15 Theatres, Writers and Society: Structures and Infrastructures of Theatre Provision in Twentieth- Century Scotland 142
19. 16 Cultural Catalysts: Sorley MacLean and George Campbell Hay 151
20. 17 Living with the Double Tongue: Modern Poetry in Scots 163
21. 18 Monsters and Goddesses: Culture Re-energised in the Poetry of Ruaraidh MacThòmais and Aonghas MacNeacail 176
22. 19 Old Country, New Dreams: Scottish Poetry since the 1970s 185
23. 20 The Lost Boys and Girls of Scottish Children’s Fiction 198
24. 21 The Human and Textual Condition: Muriel Spark’s Narratives 207
25. 22 From Carswell to Kay: Aspects of Gender, the Novel and the Drama 214
26. 23 The Autobiography in Scottish Gaelic 225
27. 24 Varieties of Voice and Changing Contexts: Robin Jenkins and Janice Galloway 231
28. 25 Breaking Boundaries: From Modern to Contemporary in Scottish Fiction 237
29. 26 Re-imagining the City: End of the Century Cultural Signs in the Novels of McIlvanney, Banks, Gray, Welsh, Kelman, Owens and Rankin 253
30. 27 The Border Crossers and Reconfiguration of the Possible: Poet-Playwright-Novelists from the Mid-Twentieth Century on 262
31. 28 In the Shadow of the Bard: The Gaelic Short Story, Novel and Drama since the early Twentieth Century 273
32. 29 Staging the Nation: Multiplicity and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary Scottish Theatre 283
33. 30 Varieties of Gender Politics, Sexuality and Thematic Innovation in Late Twentieth-Century Drama 295
34. 31 The Diaspora and its Writers 304
35. 32 New Diversity, Hybridity and Scottishness 320
36. Notes on Contributors – Volume Three 332
37. Index 337