Project MUSE®: Scottish Literary Review - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Scottish Literary Review.daily12026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 5 (2013) through current issueLatest Articles: Scottish Literary ReviewTWOProject MUSE®Scottish Literary Review2050-66781756-5634Latest articles in Scottish Literary Review. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Scottish Literary Review
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976094
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SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW is the leading international journal for Scottish literary studies, committed to approaching Scottish literature in an expansive way through exploration of its various social, cultural, historical and philosophical contexts, and of literary forms, both traditional and new. We are interested in comparative work with literatures from beyond Scotland, the interaction of literature with expressive media such as theatre and film, and in encouraging debate on issues of contemporary significance related to Scottish literary studies, so that SLR is both responsive to, and creative of, new readings and approaches. The journal is listed in the MLA International Bibliography and issues from 2013
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallScottish Literary Review2025-12-02text/htmlen-USScottish Literary Review2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®77502026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02Resistance to Accommodation: Postcolonial Readings of the Highland Clearances in Iain Crichton Smith’s Consider the Lilies
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976095
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Iain Crichton Smith (Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn)’s engagement with the Highland Clearances began with his Gaelic play A’ Chùirt (1966), which stages a symbolic trial of history itself.1 Two years later, he turned to prose fiction with Consider the Lilies (1968), a novel that now stands alongside Neil M. Gunn’s Butcher’s Broom (1934) and Fionn Mac Colla’s And the Cock Crew (1945) as part of the so-called Strathnaver novels. These works are grounded in the evictions carried out in Strathnaver by the Sutherland Estate in 1814, using this historical event as the factual foundation for their narratives. Within this grouping, published during the ‘second Scottish literary renaissance’ of the late twentieth century – a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallResistance to Accommodation: Postcolonial Readings of the Highland Clearances in Iain Crichton Smith’s Consider the Lilies2025-12-02text/htmlen-USResistance to Accommodation: Postcolonial Readings of the Highland Clearances in Iain Crichton Smith’s Consider the Lilies2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®706372026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02‘By famine, sword, and pestilence’: James Hogg and Cholera in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976096
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James Hogg, ‘The Ettrick Shepherd’, travelled to London for the first and only time in his life in late December 1831, remaining there until late March.1 His stay coincided with a tumultuous time for the nation: the first of three major nineteenth-century cholera epidemics began in October 1831, arriving in both the Scottish Borders and London during his stay.2 As R. J. Morris summarises, the epidemic’s ‘approach and arrival […] created a crisis atmosphere in the country quite unlike that produced by any other threat apart from foreign invasion’.3 Cholera was well known within the Indian subcontinent and began its global spread from 1817, but 1831 marked its first ever appearance in Britain.4 Like our own recent
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmall‘By famine, sword, and pestilence’: James Hogg and Cholera in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country2025-12-02text/htmlen-US‘By famine, sword, and pestilence’: James Hogg and Cholera in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®855742026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02William Thom (1798–1848), Weaver Poet: The London Years
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976097
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Recalling the Scottish poet and hand-loom weaver William Thom (1798–1848), the Chartist Thomas Cooper (1805–1892) reminisced:And then he sang so sweetly! We got up a weekly meeting, at one time, at the Crown Tavern, close to the church of St Dunstan’s-in the-West, Fleet Street; and it was chiefly that we might enjoy the society of Willie Thom. Julian Harney, and John Skelton (now Dr. Skelton), and old Dr. Macdonald, and James Devlin, who wrote ‘The Shoemaker,’ and Walter Cooper, and Thomas Shorter […]1Who was it who sang so sweetly? William Thom had been a hand-loom weaver in Scotland for over thirty years in 1844 when he travelled to London to prepare a second edition of Rhymes and Recollections of a Hand-loom
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallWilliam Thom (1798–1848), Weaver Poet: The London Years2025-12-02text/htmlen-USWilliam Thom (1798–1848), Weaver Poet: The London Years2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®1088332026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02The Literary Gossiping of Susan Ferrier
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976098
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It is well documented that Susan Ferrier (1782–1854), a resident of Edinburgh for the majority of her life, likely drew on real-life characters and occurrences for inspiration for her three novels: Marriage (1818), The Inheritance (1824), and Destiny; or, The Chief ’s Daughter (1831). Praised for their unforgiving satiric humour and their treatment of national identity, Ferrier’s works are full of sketches of contemporary Scottish and English inhabitants and customs, comically exposing the follies and vices – on a sliding scale of severity – of these worlds. Moreover, critics generally agree that ‘[s]killful characterization marks the apogee of Ferrier’s artistic abilities’ and that this skill is sustained at least
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallThe Literary Gossiping of Susan Ferrier2025-12-02text/htmlen-USThe Literary Gossiping of Susan Ferrier2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®716242026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02Animal Subjectivity in the Poetry of Robert Burns Under the Animal Turn
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976099
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Robert Burns (1759–1796), known as ‘Scotland’s National Poet’, is renowned not only for the heartfelt emotion of his work, but also for his unique perspective and deep affection for the natural world. Burns was born in 1759 in Ayrshire, where the richness of the natural landscape and countryside provided a constant source of inspiration for his poetry. As the son of a farmer, Burns grew up with a close connection to the land and animals, which not only shaped his character, but also filled him with sympathy and respect for life in the natural world. Eighteenth-century Scotland was in the midst of social change, and the wave of the Industrial Revolution gradually encroached upon the traditional agricultural society
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallAnimal Subjectivity in the Poetry of Robert Burns Under the Animal Turn2025-12-02text/htmlen-USAnimal Subjectivity in the Poetry of Robert Burns Under the Animal Turn2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®682462026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02Tom Nairn as Essayist: Romantic Negativity and Critical Imagination
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976100
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Tom Nairn (1932–2023) was one of the most influential political thinkers of post-war Britain, whose contributions to the New Left, to nationalism studies and to the movement for Scottish independence are widely appreciated.1 What is less often stated seems even more obviously the case: Nairn was one of the finest political essayists of the twentieth century, whose generative and entertaining style will bear comparison (in very different ways) to the critical prose of William Hazlitt, Susan Sontag or – in our own century – Sam Kriss. What if the writing was the point? We cannot of course separate the writing from the ideas, but this article takes seriously a remark Nairn made in the final years of his life, that
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallTom Nairn as Essayist: Romantic Negativity and Critical Imagination2025-12-02text/htmlen-USTom Nairn as Essayist: Romantic Negativity and Critical Imagination2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®886902026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02Low Visibility: ‘wickit wedderis’ and the Contest of Knowledge in The Taill of Rauf Coilȝear
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976101
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It’s not every day that a commoner not only meets a king in the woods but also grabs him by the royal neck and gives him a courtesy lesson, but that’s exactly what we find in the late fifteenth-century burlesque poem The Taill of Rauf Coilȝear. This moment is mirrored toward the end of the poem, when Rauf, the commoner, collier, and ambitious poacher, is nearly hung by his neck and is instead knighted. As Glenn Wright notes,Rauf Coilȝear’s artfulness […] lies with its controlled equilibrium, not only of structural elements but of ethical orientation and comic tugof-war. The text offers the pleasure of observing its complex balances and multilayered situational ironies, rather than permanently engaging our
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallLow Visibility: ‘wickit wedderis’ and the Contest of Knowledge in The Taill of Rauf Coilȝear2025-12-02text/htmlen-USLow Visibility: ‘wickit wedderis’ and the Contest of Knowledge in The Taill of Rauf Coilȝear2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®952262026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02Muriel Spark and the House of the Brontës: Female Authorship and Autonomy
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976102
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In her 1985 essay ‘Footnote to “The Poet’s House” ’, Muriel Spark explains her obsession with the Brontë sisters’ habitat and literary legacy:We know that out of that bleak rectory in Yorkshire came Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and all the richly imaginative works of the Brontë sisters. […] To me, a famous writer’s house is irresistible. […] The more ordinary the scene, in fact, the more I succumb to sensation, wonder and awe.1Spark observes that the Brontë sisters’ living environment nurtures their literary talent. Some critics have remarked on the relationship between Spark’s critical and biographical work on the Brontës and her own emerging writing practice.2 Martin Stannard
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallMuriel Spark and the House of the Brontës: Female Authorship and Autonomy2025-12-02text/htmlen-USMuriel Spark and the House of the Brontës: Female Authorship and Autonomy2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®912462026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02‘He in alle thing wele temperite was’: The Emotional Language of The Buik of King Alexander The Conquerour
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976103
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The Older Scots Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour has been widely appreciated for its sophisticated adaptation of sources, its integration of romance conventions and speculum principis,2 and its descriptive power and originality.3 However, the richness of its affective language, and the detail with which the emotions of its protagonists are explored has received little critical attention. This article addresses this gap in scholarship and demonstrates how the poem’s interest in its protagonists’ emotional states also provides insights into how Scottish romance writers encouraged their readers in the shaping of their moral and ethical identities through the adaptation of powerful narratives from the past.Recent
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmall‘He in alle thing wele temperite was’: The Emotional Language of The Buik of King Alexander The Conquerour2025-12-02text/htmlen-US‘He in alle thing wele temperite was’: The Emotional Language of The Buik of King Alexander The Conquerour2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®1052482026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02Green Blades Among the Rubble – Posterity’s Judgement on The Minstrel?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976104
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You may find reading The Minstrel for the first time a haunting encounter. Many things are reminiscent of other things that you half remember. Ghosts of familiar poets seem to present themselves, you find glimmers of better-known poems which are out of kilter with The Minstrel’s early date of publication, and you confront tests of reading endurance in working your way through the uneven phases of a poem of two books, in total 123 nine-line stanzas.1To rationalise this confusing impact on the reader, the critical machine classifies the poem unchallengingly, placing it in comfortable non-specificity. The description ‘proto-Romantic’ sits easily on the poem, and with justification. Its narrative tracks the development
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallGreen Blades Among the Rubble – Posterity’s Judgement on The Minstrel?2025-12-02text/htmlen-USGreen Blades Among the Rubble – Posterity’s Judgement on The Minstrel?2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®755382026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02Hogg and the Ettrick Clearances
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976105
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And real property the land of the country unquestionably is […] but obscure merely on the principle through which the early history of an ancient people or long-derived family is obscure, – obscure simply because its beginnings reach far beyond the era of the annalist and the chronicler.1Readers of James Hogg with an interest in his origins are now generously provided for, what with Karl Miller’s Likeness and Gillian Hughes’s Life having appeared in 2003 and 2007, respectively, both revealing and scrupulous in their own ways.2 Nevertheless, at the same time a rift has opened up between critical work on Hogg and historians’ understanding of his native rural scene in the eighteenth century. On the one hand, we are
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallHogg and the Ettrick Clearances2025-12-02text/htmlen-USHogg and the Ettrick Clearances2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®1052022026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02Octonaries upon the Vanitie and Inconstancie of the World by Esther Inglis (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976106
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The manuscripts of Esther Inglis are some of the most exquisite items in archival collections today. Often bound in embroidered velvet, these volumes open to reveal page after page of highly skilled calligraphy in a range of scripts, set off by coloured illustrations of flowers and birds. The effect is nothing short of dazzling. In recent years, Inglis’s manuscripts have been exhibited with greater frequency, allowing exhibition-goers to marvel at the steadiness of her hand, the ambition of her designs, and the breadth of her skillset. Among scholars and cultural-heritage stakeholders, Inglis’s artisanal skills have become renowned, but her literary talents have rarely been examined. Her prowess as a maker of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallOctonaries upon the Vanitie and Inconstancie of the World by Esther Inglis (review)2025-12-02text/htmlen-USOctonaries upon the Vanitie and Inconstancie of the World by Esther Inglis (review)2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®84952026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02Plays in Scots, Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Michel Tremblay (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976107
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These assiduously edited and handsomely presented editions bring together all eight of Martin Bowman and Bill Findlay’s Scots translations of the Québécois dramatist Michel Tremblay’s plays, originally staged in Scotland between the late 1980s and the early 2000s. Not least because only three of the translations had previously been available, this is a welcome event. Five of the plays, as Martin Bowman notes in his acknowledgements in the first volume, were lying ‘around in various versions and forms’ and consequently ‘in danger of being lost’ before this intervention by the Association for Scottish Literature. Volume 1 contains The Guid Sisters (1989), The Real Wurld? (1991), Hosanna (1991) and Forever Yours
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallPlays in Scots, Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Michel Tremblay (review)2025-12-02text/htmlen-USPlays in Scots, Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Michel Tremblay (review)2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®97672026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation, 1640–1800 ed. by Nicholas Brownlees (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976108
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This volume of The History of the British and Irish Press, under the general editorship of David Finkelstein and Martin Conboy, is the first of three, though the last to be published. Volumes 2 and 3, covering the nineteenth century and the period from 1900 to 2017, appeared in 2020. Volume 1 has the challenging task of tracking the development of the press from the 1640s, when early print newsbooks began to compete with manuscript newsletters, to 1800 when the newspaper had become established more or less in the form in which it exists today. It is worth clarifying that the ‘press’ here mostly, though not exclusively, refers to newspapers rather than to the periodical press more broadly, though there is occasional
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallThe Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation, 1640–1800 ed. by Nicholas Brownlees (review)2025-12-02text/htmlen-USThe Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation, 1640–1800 ed. by Nicholas Brownlees (review)2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®115622026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons: Romanticism’s Black Geographies by Katey Castellano (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976109
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Castellano’s monograph is the 150th in the field-redefining ‘Cambridge Studies in Romanticism’ series founded by Marilyn Butler and currently under the editorial leadership of James Chandler. True to the series, Castellano’s dense monograph does not underperform in spite of its brevity. The main text of Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons is not quite 140 pages long, including nearly ten pages of full- and half-page images and followed by fifty-five pages of added notes. The two books in the series published immediately before this were considerably longer: Catherine Packham’s Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy is 224 pages long with forty pages of notes, while Oliva Ferguson’s Caricature and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallRobert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons: Romanticism’s Black Geographies by Katey Castellano (review)2025-12-02text/htmlen-USRobert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons: Romanticism’s Black Geographies by Katey Castellano (review)2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®96582026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02Law, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions ed. by Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976110
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Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt have edited a collection of essays that explore the flashpoint between positive law and those more abstract notions of justice that motivated many writers and thinkers of the Romantic era. Whereas relatively few of the chapters directly engage with the title’s ‘equity’ in the strict sense of the Romantic period’s equity courts (i.e. Chancery in England and, in the absence of such in Scotland, the principle of nobile officium), all engage with justice in a time that saw reforms and reconsiderations. Equitable remedy is arguably the book’s unifying operation, repeated in different instances from chapter to chapter, many of which present a sort of reversal or redress in which an
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallLaw, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions ed. by Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt (review)2025-12-02text/htmlen-USLaw, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions ed. by Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt (review)2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®102692026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02A modern skót irodalom a 19. század végétől napjainkig [Modern Scottish Literature from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day] by Attila Dósa (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976111
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Attila Dósa’s volume offers the first monographic history of Scottish literature for the Hungarian reader. Works of artistic literature – whether fiction, poetry or drama – written by Scottish authors are hardly unknown in the country: writings by Scott, Byron, Stevenson, Eric Linklater, Edwin Morgan and by contemporary poets have reached the Hungarian readership in several editions in the last two centuries, often with little delay after their first publication. The Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation, formerly hosted by the National Library of Scotland and currently preparing its second phase under the care of the University of Glasgow, shows, through its one thousand bibliographical items, that
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallA modern skót irodalom a 19. század végétől napjainkig [Modern Scottish Literature from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day] by Attila Dósa (review)2025-12-02text/htmlen-USA modern skót irodalom a 19. század végétől napjainkig [Modern Scottish Literature from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day] by Attila Dósa (review)2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®164232026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02The International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature ed. by Maureen A. Farrell and Robert A. Davis (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976112
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This International Companion marks a significant moment in charting Scotland’s rich contribution to children’s literature and culture, both past and present. Continuing the enquiry presented in Gerard Carruthers’s Wiley Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature (2024), which featured Sarah Dunnigan’s chapter on children’s literature in Scotland, the Companion contains thirteen chapters, branching out into different time periods and genres, offering up the first dedicated volume of its kind. The task is a tall one, and the editors note that what they present will not be ‘forensic’ but will describe and explore ‘the canon for a new audience’ (p. 3). Indeed, the chapters presented are all accessibly written and can
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallThe International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature ed. by Maureen A. Farrell and Robert A. Davis (review)2025-12-02text/htmlen-USThe International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature ed. by Maureen A. Farrell and Robert A. Davis (review)2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®97622026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02History of a Revoluter: The Life of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon by William K. Malcolm (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976113
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William K. Malcolm’s biography of James Leslie Mitchell, better known by his pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, is the first fully in-depth critical account of Mitchell’s life. This is in itself remarkable given Grassic Gibbon’s popularity, particularly in his native country, as the author of Sunset Song, a novel regularly voted a favourite by the Scottish reading public. Ian S. Munro’s Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon, published in 1966, was the first biography of the Scottish novelist, but Malcolm’s account is by far the most wide-ranging and impressive Life of Mitchell/Gibbon and is likely to set the standard for what we know of Mitchell for years to come.The outline of Mitchell’s life is familiar enough. Born
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallHistory of a Revoluter: The Life of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon by William K. Malcolm (review)2025-12-02text/htmlen-USHistory of a Revoluter: The Life of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon by William K. Malcolm (review)2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®138552026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02Mary Queen of Scots: The First Biography: With the Life and Times of Its Author, George Con by Ronald Santangeli (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976114
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Ronald Santangeli’s study begins at the tomb of George Con (c. 1598–1640, also spelt Conn), which is found in Rome at the Church of San Lorenzo in Damaso. The epitaph records that Pope Urban VIII held Con in great esteem and sent him as papal agent to Henrietta-Maria, Queen of Great Britain. Con died, prematurely, in the house of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, the Pope’s nephew and Con’s friend, who later paid for his funerary monument.Above this inscription a cherub holds up a three-dimensional bust of Con emerging from an oval medallion. The sculpture possesses a ‘real sense of encounter’ (p. 3) that Santangeli pursues in his exploration of Con’s life. Part I offers a biography that thickens the epitaph’s outline
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallMary Queen of Scots: The First Biography: With the Life and Times of Its Author, George Con by Ronald Santangeli (review)2025-12-02text/htmlen-USMary Queen of Scots: The First Biography: With the Life and Times of Its Author, George Con by Ronald Santangeli (review)2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®120392026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Sarah Sharp (review)
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As Sarah Sharp notes in her intricately weaved monograph, many texts in the nineteenth century had a ‘fascination’ with ‘the deathbed, the rituals of burial, and the burial site’ (p. 2). Romanticism and the Scottish Romantics in particular developed this theme, bringing new and varied life to the subject. Sharp’s study therefore examines a particular facet of Scottish Romanticism and death, exploring the ways in which rural graveyards located in Scotland are used within fiction of the 1810s, 1820s and 1830s to map a sense of modernity and national identity.Central to this is the ‘Blackwoodian school of Scottish fiction’: the book ‘draws together a group of texts from the pages of Blackwood’s, the books published by
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallKirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Sarah Sharp (review)2025-12-02text/htmlen-USKirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Sarah Sharp (review)2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®91262026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02Scottish Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life by Juliet Shields (review)
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In Scottish Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century, Juliet Shields provides a new and convincing way to trace the development of the Scottish novel in the long nineteenth century by giving close attention to an under-studied and undervalued corpus of Scottish women’s writing. Shields begins by exploring the relationship between romance, realism and Scottish literary identity from the death of Walter Scott in 1832 to the resurgence of interest in Romance novels at the end of the century in order to challenge the ‘claim that Scotland lacked any equivalent to the English Victorian realist tradition, with its novels of political debate and social reform’ (p. 6). Shields interrogates the suggestion that
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallScottish Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life by Juliet Shields (review)2025-12-02text/htmlen-USScottish Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life by Juliet Shields (review)2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®101442026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02Notes on Contributors
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Kang-yen Chiu holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Glasgow and is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. His research interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, the works of Walter Scott, the historical novel, postcolonial theory, long eighteenth-century British painting, Enlightenment aesthetics, and film adaptation. He is editor of British Literature, Art and History in the Long Eighteenth Century (China Times, 2023).Megan Coyer is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow and currently co-directs Glasgow’s Medical Humanities Research Centre. She is
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/614/image/coversmallNotes on Contributors2025-12-02text/htmlen-USNotes on Contributors2025-12-022025TWOProject MUSE®77192026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-02