Product Description: Intending Scotland reconsiders our understanding of the development of Scottish culture from the Enlightenment to the present day. The book recovers and reconnects Scottish thinkers from Hume and Reid in the eighteenth century, to Andrew Seth, Norman Kemp Smith and John Macmurray in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries...read more

Product Description: Associationism and the Literary Imagination traces the influence of empirical philosophy and associationist psychology on theories of literary creativity and on the experience of reading literature. It runs from David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature in 1739 to the works of major literary critics of the twentieth century, such as I...read more

Published originally in two volumes in 1890, this extraordinary study of primitive myth and magic, collected from sources around the world, led Frazer to identify parallel patterns of ritual, symbols and belief across many centuries and many different cultures.

Product Description: This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from 'The Remains of the Day' to 'White Teeth'...read more

Product Description: This collection brings together some of Scotland's best-known dramatists. This timely anthology presents many classic contemporary playwrights whose work has been out of print for some time. The collection includes the following in what will come to be a literary and academic standard: "Mary Rose", James Barrie; "In Time o' Strife", Joe Corrie; "Jamie the Saxt", Robert McLellan; "Mr Bolfry", James Bridie; "The Gorbals Story", Robert McLeish; "Men Should Weep", Ena Lamont Stewart; "Gay Landscape", George Munro; "Mister", Stanley Eveling; "The Bevellers", Roddy Macmillan; "Mister", C...read more

Product Description: 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 Gibbon and Neil Gunn, a tradition whose distinctive thematic and formal concerns have shaped a unique contribution to the novel in English...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)