Preface . . . 5
Introduction
by Joachim Schwend . . . 7
Contemporary Reviews of Neil Munro's Novel John Splendid
by Hermann Völkel . . . 13
Questioning the Canon: The Problem of George Douglas Brown's Shorter
Writings
by Patrick Scott . . . 31
John Buchan's Novels about Scotland
by Christopher
MacLachlan . . . 45
David Lindsay: Scotland and the Northern Connection
by Bernard
Sellin . . . 67
Gillespie: Facing the Elemental
by John Burns . . . 83
Boxing Compton Mackenzie's Compass: A Turn round The Four Winds of
Love
by Ian Ross . . . 101
Dark Star over Drumorty: The Writing of Lorna Moon
by Glenda Norquay . . . 117
“A very Curious Emptiness”: Muir's Novels as the Provenance of Scott
and Scotland
by Sheila G. Lodge . . . 133
The Published Novels of Willa Muir
by David S. Robb . . . 149
Neil Gunn and the Highland Novel: The Anxiety of Influence
by Alistair McCleery . . . 163
A Tendency to the Whole: MacDiarmid's Annals of the Five Senses
by Catherine Kerrigan . . . 181
Coming to Terms with Industrial Scotland: Two ‘Proletarian’ Novels of
the 1930s (George Blake: The Shipbuilders, James Barke: Major
Operation)
by Manfred Malzahn . . . 193
‘... to get leave to live.’ Patterns of Identity, Freedom and Defeat
in the Fiction of Nan Shepherd
by Roderick Watson . . . 207
Forgiving the Past: Naomi Mitchison's The Bull Calves
by Douglas
Gifford . . . 219
Human Relations: an Outline of Some Major Themes in Naomi Mitchison's
Adult Fiction
by Isobel Murray . . . 243
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Revolutionary Romanticism
by Ian Bell . . . 257
The Grassic Gibbon Style
by Ian
Campbell . . . 271
Rough Edges: The Feminist Representation of Women in the Writing of
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
by Keith Dixon . . . 289
Through the Glass Bleakly: Fionn Mac Colla's View of the Gaelic World
in The Albannach
by Andrew Monnickendam
. . . 303
Imagining the City: The Glasgow Novel
by Christopher
Whyte . . . 317
Calvin Walker — Still Going Strong. The Scottish Kirk in 20th-Century
Scottish Fiction
by Joachim Schwend . . . 335
Index . . . 347