Scottish literature
Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland; Emergent Ecologies of a Nation
Author / Creator: Susan Oliver
Media type: Book
Date published: 2023
The work of Walter Scott, one of the most globally influential authors of the nineteenth century, provides us with a unique narrative of the changing ecologies of Scotland over several centuries and writes this narrative into the history of environmental literature.
Writing Black Scotland Race, Nation and the Devolution of Black Britain
Author / Creator: Joseph H. Jackson
Media type: 216pp
Date published: 2022
Writing Black Scotland examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish literature.
Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography
Author / Creator: A. Riach
Media type: Book
Date published: 2025
This fascinating new study is about cultural change and continuities.
Narratives of Scottish History and Identity in Pro-Independence Poetry written for the 2014 Scottish Referendum
Author / Creator: Kathryn Ailes
Media type: Thesis
Date published: 2015
In the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaigns, writers played a key role in articulating binding myths of Scottishness and visions of Scotland’s future.
Scottish Nostalgias: Evocations of Home in the 1990s Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay, and Kathleen Jamie
Author / Creator: Katie Ailes
Media type: Thesis
Date published: 2014
An examination of the themes of nostalgia, memory, and displacement in the 1990s work of Scottish poets Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay, and Kathleen Jamie.