Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Introduction: Modernism and Scottish Modernism 1
5. Part I Transforming Traditions
6. Chapter 1 Towards a Scottish Modernism: C. M. Grieve, Little Magazines and the Movement for Renewal 11
7. Chapter 2 Hugh MacDiarmid and Modernist Poetry in Scots 29
8. Chapter 3 Criticism and New Writing in English 53
9. Chapter 4 Beyond this Limit: Women, Modernism and the Modern World 68
10. Part II Ideology and Literature
11. Chapter 5 Whither Scotland? Politics and Society between the Wars 93
12. Chapter 6 Neil M. Gunn: Re-imagining the Highlands 113
13. Chapter 7 Modernism and Littérature Engagée: A Scots Quair and City Fiction 131
14. Chapter 8 Poetry and Politics 154
15. Part III World War Two and its Aftermath
16. Chapter 9 Visionaries and Revisionaries: Late Muir and MacDiarmid 169
17. Chapter 10 Continuities and New Voices 198
18. Bibliography of Works Cited 216
19. Index 223