The Scottish Novel since the Seventies / / Stuart Wallace, Randall Stevenson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Wallace, Stuart,; Stevenson, Randall,
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Carol,; Burns, John,; Craig, Cairns,; Dickson, Beth,; Dunn, Douglas,; Gifford, Douglas,; Harvie, Christopher,; Lumsden, Alison,; Metzstein, Margery,; Morgan, Edwin,; Nairn, Thom,; Norquay, Glenda,; Rankin, Ian,; Spring, Ian,; Wallace, Gavin,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

The last two decades have seen a new renaissance in Scottish literary culture in which the Scottish novel has attained new heights of maturity, confidence and challenge. The Scottish Novel since the Seventies is the first major critical reassessment of the developments in this period. Ranging from the work of longer-established authors such as Robin Jenkins, Muriel Spark and William McIlvanney to the more recent experiments of Alasdair Gray, James Kelman and Janice Galloway, it provides a new critical focus on the intriguing relationship between continuity and innovation which characterises the novel's response to the complex changes in Scottish culture and society during the past twenty years. The contributors assess the work of an extensive number of writers in the context of a correspondingly wide range of issues: gender, postmodernism, political identity, archaism and myth, and the theme of disintegration. There are also chapters on the continuing growth of the 'Glasgow novel' and film adaptations of Scottish fiction. A bibliography of Scottish fiction since 1970 completes this critical account.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I CONTINUITIES -- One Disruptions: The Later Fiction of Robin Jenkins -- Two Bleeding from All that's Best: The Fiction of Iain Crichton Smith -- Three The Deliberate Cunning of Muriel Spark -- Four Class and Being in the Novels of William McIlvanney -- Five Myths and Marvels -- Part II INNOVATIONS -- Six Tradition and Experiment in the Glasgow Novel -- Seven Resisting Arrest: James Kelman -- Eight Innovation and Reaction in the Fiction of Alasdair Gray -- Nine Iain Banks and the Fiction Factory -- Ten Of Myths and Men: Aspects of Gender in the Fiction of Janice Galloway -- Part III NEW READINGS -- Eleven Divergent Scottishness: William Boyd, Allan Massie, Ronald Frame -- Twelve Listening to the Women Talk -- Thirteen Gnawing the Mammoth: History, Class and Politics in the Modern Scottish and Welsh Novel -- Fourteen Image and Text: Fiction on Film -- Fifteen Voices in Empty Houses: The Novel of Damaged Identity -- Sixteen The Scottish Novel since 1970: A Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index