The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature

Series Editors’ Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Strangeness of Centuries (Sheila M. Kidd, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, and Kenneth McNeil)

PART 1: EXPERIMENTS

1. Gaelic Poets and New Patterns of Patronage (Ruairidh Maciver)

2. Inspiring Songs: The Rise of Ballad Culture (Valentina Bold)

3. The Novel: Romance and History (Pam Perkins)

4. Slavery, Kinship, and Capital (Michael Morris)

5. Private Thoughts and Public Display: Gender, Genre, and Lives (Susan Oliver)

6. The Gothic, Supernatural, and Religious (Samuel Baker)

7. Drama and Adaptation (Barbara Bell)

8. The Short Story to 1832 (Thomas C. Richardson)

PART 2: CONSOLIDATIONS

9. Diaries and Letters (Paul Barnaby)

10. Public Education, Science, and Metaphor (Cairns Craig)

11. Religion and Popular Literature in Scotland: The Literary Imagination as Inspiration (Alison Jack)

12. Social Comment (Regina Hewitt)

13. ‘Urban Folk’: Scottish Victorian Adaptations and Transmutations of Earlier Verse Traditions (C. M. Jackson-Houlston)

14. Gaelic Literature of the Diaspora (Sheila M. Kidd)

15. David Pae, the Newspaper Novel, and the Imagined Community of North Britain (Graham Law)

16. Industrial-Strength Fiction: Margaret Oliphant and James Grant (Joanne Wilkes)

17. Scottish Travel Writing (Jennifer Hayward)

18. Travel Writing about the Highlands in the Nineteenth

Century (Nigel Leask)

PART 3: EXPANSIONS

19. City Songs (Kirstie Blair)

20. Gaelic Political Poetry 1870–1900 (Priscilla Scott)

21. The Kailyard Novelists (Andrew Nash)

22. The International Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (Lesley Graham)

23. Celticists and Anthropologists (Michael Shaw)

24. Science and Speculation (Julia Reid)

25. Scotland’s New Women (Juliet Shields)

Endnotes

Further Reading

Notes on Contributors

Index