The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination

by Cairns Craig

In the last quarter century, Scottish novelists from Muriel Spark, Alasdair Gray and Allan Massie to James Kelman, Janice Galloway, A.L. Kennedy and Irvine Welsh have achieved significant international success. In The Modern Scottish Novel Cairns Craig shows how the work of such writers is constructed by a powerful national tradition in the novel, formed in the first decades of the century by writers such as John Buchan, Nan Shepherd, Lewis Grassic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748608931
• ISBN13: 9780748608935
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher