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The International Companion to the Scottish Novel

The International Companion to the Scottish Novel

Paperback

Series: International Companions to Scottish Literature, Book 10

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1908980435
ISBN13: 9781908980434
Publisher: Scottish Literature International
Published: Sep 8 2025
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Are novelists from Scotland, even internationally influential ones like Walter Scott or Muriel Spark, merely contributors to a wider English literature, or is there a separate and specific tradition of the Scottish novel that gives meaning and significance to their work? This INTERNATIONAL COMPANION assesses the work of Scottish novelists - writing in English, Scots and Gaelic - as contributions to national self-understanding and to a distinctive evolution of the most influential genre of the modern world. Tracing the development of the Scottish novel from the eighteenth century to the present day, and ranging from self-conscious experimentation to popular, mass-market fiction, it evaluates responses by critics, and critical responses by the novelists themselves, to reveal a sustained engagement with national identity and literary form.

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