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.