Literature of Scotland: The Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century

Critics hailed The Literature of Scotland as one of the most comprehensive and fascinatingly readable accounts of Scottish life and literature. This revised edition now focuses on Medieval to Victorian times, exploring the growth of the idea of a nation from the early ballads and the oral tradition to the achievement of Burns, Scott and Carlyle. The literature which followed in the modern period is discussed in a new companion volume Literature of Scotland: The Twentieth Century .

RODERICK WATSON is Professor of English at the University of Stirling and Director of the Stirling Centre for Scottish Studies.

Preface * Acknowledgements * Map of Scotland * Introduction: Renewals, Revivals and Revisions * The Beginnings of Scotland: Two Cultures * The Fifteenth Century: The Flowering * The Sixteenth Century: John the Commonweill * The Seventeenth Century: Crown and Covenant, the Ballads * The Eighteenth Century: New Athenians and the Doric * The Nineteenth Century: History, Industry, Sentiment * Chronological Table * Further Reading * Index Preface * Acknowledgements * Map of Scotland * Introduction: Renewals, Revivals and Revisions * The Beginnings of Scotland: Two Cultures * The Fifteenth Century: The Flowering * The Sixteenth Century: John the Commonweill * The Seventeenth Century: Crown and Covenant, the Ballads * The Eighteenth Century: New Athenians and the Doric * The Nineteenth Century: History, Industry, Sentiment * Chronological Table * Further Reading * Index