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This INTERNATIONAL COMPANION assesses the work of Scottish novelists – writing in English, Gaelic, & Scots – from the eighteenth century to the present, & confronts constructions of nationality, identity, & form.

Available from all good booksellers & online via Project MUSE

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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic10/

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Book cover. On the top half, in white letters on a green background, text reads

The International Companion to THE SCOTTISH NOVEL
Edited by Cairns Craig

Underneath is a detail from “When Children Are Asleep” (1885), by Thomas Faed (1825–1900). A woman wearing a simple, pale grey Victorian dress and a white bonnet, with a yellow shawl around her shoulders, sits next to a small fireplace, reading a book. She holds the book in her right hand, and puts down her left hand to warm it in the orange glow of the fireplace. Behind her, in a half-open box-bed, two small children are asleep.

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Contents

Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction (Cairns Craig)
1. Smollett and the Novel in Scotland (Aileen Douglas)
2. The Philosophical Foundations of the Scottish Novel (Cairns Craig)
Document 1 – Mrs Oliphant: ‘Walter Scott’
3. Walter Scott, the Reader, and the Times after Time (Caroline McCracken-Flesher)
Document 2 – Georg Lukács: from The Historical Novel
4. The Scottish Novel in the Wake of Walter Scott, 1815–1830 (Charles Snodgrass)
5. The Victorian Novel of Spiritual Crisis and the Disruption of Scottish Literary History (Juliet Shields)
Document 3 – Robert Louis Stevenson: ‘A Humble Remonstrance’
6. From the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century (Andrew Nash)
Document 4 – Edwin Muir: from Scott and Scotland
7. The Scottish Novel in the Interwar Years (Glenda Norquay)
Document 5 – Lewis Grassic Gibbon: ‘Literary Lights’
8. From the Second World War to the 1970s (Eleanor Bell)

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Contents (continued)

Document 6 – Muriel Spark: from ‘The Desegregation of Art’
9. The Scottish Novel 1979–1999 (Carole Jones)
Document 7 – James Kelman: ‘Elitism and English Literature’
10. The First Hundred Years of the Gaelic Novel (Moray Watson)
11. Scottish Detective Fiction (Matthew Wickman)
12. Scottish Science Fiction and Fantasy (Anna McFarlane)
13. Scottish Children’s and Young Adult Fiction (Fiona McCulloch)
14. Into the Twenty-First Century (Cairns Craig)

Endnotes
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index

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CFP: Foreclosure
a Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism

Theorising foreclosure in relation to British cultural production since 1960. The editors seek contributions on literary imagination, questions of genre & form, interpretive practices, & material conditions of cultural production

Deadline 18 July

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https://raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/06/09/call-for-contributors-foreclosure-a-special-issue-of-key-words-a-journal-of-cultural-materialism/

#Scottish #English #Welsh #Ulster #literature #Literarystudies #CulturalStudies

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Call for papers:
(Un)natural Stevenson: Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science & gender
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 11–12 May 2026

This conference aims to explore the concept of nature/natural in Robert Louis Stevenson’s work, & to investigate Stevenson both as a writer of dichotomies/dualisms & of their wild transgressions

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EoselkYayxzSXzW36aDZTbZv_SQt8cCG/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #LiteraryStudies #ecology #science #gender

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Just received my contributor’s copy of “Chinese Science Fiction in Translation and Its World Impact: Connecting Futures”! This is a wide-ranging volume on the translation, adaptation, and reception of Chinese SF, with some excellent people offering their insights, so please give it a look.

My chapter is titled “Future without Tense? Time and Tense in the Translation of Chinese SF” and focuses on a comparison of the use of grammatical tense in the English and Finnish translations of three SF short stories written by Xia Jia, Chen Qiufan, and Regina Kanyu Wang. I also briefly discuss tense and estrangement more generally in English translations of Chinese SF, with reference to the theoretical conceptualizations of Brian McHale and Simon Spiegel.

#ChineseStudies #ChineseLiterature #Translation #TranslationStudies #ScienceFiction #SFStudies #SpeculativeFiction #LiteraryStudies #LiteraryScholarship #AcademicChatter #Tutkijahommat

"Chinese Science Fiction in Translation and Its World Impact: Connecting Futures", edited by Yiqing Gu, Yun Wu, and Riccardo Moratto, with a dark blue cover with thin white lines forming geometrical shapes like in a mechanical diagram

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Out now!

STEVENSON AND PLEASURE
Ed. Julie Gay, Lesley Graham & Nathalie Jaëck

Looking at physical, creative, & intertextual/intermedial pleasures, these 10 essays explore how pleasure – sensory, intellectual & aesthetic – influenced Robert Louis Stevenson’s work & its reception.

Available from bookshops worldwide (£24.95 / €29.95 / $29.95) & digitally via Project MUSE

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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/stevenson-and-pleasure/

#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #Victorian #19thcentury #literarystudies