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Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel

Book Chapter

Lyall, S. (2016)

Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (1-24). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004317451_002

While ‘community’ as a concept has come under increasing attack in a neoliberal era, it has remained in Scotland a mythic, though not unexamined, signifier of resistance to pe...

Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community

Book Chapter

Lyall, S. (2016)

Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (82-102). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers

This chapter suggests two main related points. The overarching contention is that Hugh MacDiarmid was a poetic, political, polemical, and metaphysical impossibilist (rather th...

In search of community

Book Chapter

Lyall, S. (2016)

In search of community. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (vii-xiii). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers

Community derives from the Latin root word communis (common), which itself breaks down into two possible derivations [...]. The first, com plus munis (what is indebted, bound,...

Community in Modern Scottish Literature

Book

Lyall, S. (Ed.)

(2016). Community in Modern Scottish Literature. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers

Community in Modern Scottish Literature is the first book to examine representations and theories of community in Scottish writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries ...

Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin de Siecle Literary Scene.

Book

Dryden, L. (2015)

Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin de Siecle Literary Scene. Palgrave

This is the first sustained examination of of the literary friendship between Conrad and Wells. Drawing upon archival research, diaries, letters and a close analysis of texts,...

Tagore on the Creative Principle.

Book

Fraser, B. (2014)

Tagore on the Creative Principle. In I. Chaudhuri (Ed.), Tagore's Vision of the Contemporary WorldHaranand Publications/ICCR

'Parapar O Bibadbhumi: Deshbhager Galpe Anatmabodh'

Book Chapter

Fraser, B. (2014)

'Parapar O Bibadbhumi: Deshbhager Galpe Anatmabodh'. In M. K. Mandal (Ed.), Deshbhager Sahitya: Smriti, Satwa O Sangrup (The Bengal Partition) in BengaliGangchil

'Hauntings of Celticism': Fionn Mac Colla and the Myth of History

Journal Article

Lyall, S. (2014)

'Hauntings of Celticism': Fionn Mac Colla and the Myth of History. Literature and History, 23(2), 51-66. https://doi.org/10.7227/LH.23.2.4

Fionn Mac Colla’s ideas of history can be characterised as postcolonial in their critique of historical determinism, Cartesian dualism and Whig progressivism. He utilises his ...

The Scottish Jutewallah: a Study of Transnational Positioning in Personal Narratives.

Book

Fraser, B. (2013)

The Scottish Jutewallah: a Study of Transnational Positioning in Personal Narratives. In C. Sassi, & T. van Heijnsbergen (Eds.), Within and Without Empire: Scotland Across the (Post)colonial Borderline,, 136-149. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Urban Gothic.

Book Chapter

Alder, E. (2012)

Urban Gothic. In W. Hughes, D. Punter, & A. Smith (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the Gothic. Blackwell