Five Myths and Marvels

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I CONTINUITIES
6. One Disruptions: The Later Fiction of Robin Jenkins 11
7. Two Bleeding from All that’s Best: The Fiction of Iain Crichton Smith 25
8. Three The Deliberate Cunning of Muriel Spark 41
9. Four Class and Being in the Novels of William McIlvanney 54
10. Five Myths and Marvels 71
11. Part II INNOVATIONS
12. Six Tradition and Experiment in the Glasgow Novel 85
13. Seven Resisting Arrest: James Kelman 99
14. Eight Innovation and Reaction in the Fiction of Alasdair Gray 115
15. Nine Iain Banks and the Fiction Factory 127
16. Ten Of Myths and Men: Aspects of Gender in the Fiction of Janice Galloway 136
17. Part III NEW READINGS
18. Eleven Divergent Scottishness: William Boyd, Allan Massie, Ronald Frame 149
19. Twelve Listening to the Women Talk 170
20. Thirteen Gnawing the Mammoth: History, Class and Politics in the Modern Scottish and Welsh Novel 187
21. Fourteen Image and Text: Fiction on Film 206
22. Fifteen Voices in Empty Houses: The Novel of Damaged Identity 217
23. Sixteen The Scottish Novel since 1970: A Bibliography 232
24. About the Contributors 244
25. Index 247