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

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 t...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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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