Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editors’ Preface vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Spirituality 11
7. 2 Gaelic Poetry and Song 22
8. 3 Orality and the Ballad Tradition 35
9. 4 Enlightenment Culture 44
10. 5 Domestic Fiction 53
11. 6 Janet Hamilton: Working-class Memoirist and Commentator 63
12. 7 Private Writing 75
13. 8 Margaret Oliphant and the Periodical Press 84
14. 9 Writing the Supernatural 94
15. 10 Interwar Literature 103
16. 11 Writing Spaces 113
17. 12 Experiment and Nation in the 1960s 122
18. 13 Genre Fiction 130
19. 14 Twentieth-Century Poetry 140
20. 15 Contemporary Fiction 152
21. Endnotes 163
22. Further Reading 193
23. Notes on Contributors 198
24. Index 201