MLA 2007 Chicago

This page provides a list of all the Scottish titles showcased at the MLA 2007 in Chicago. Click on the publishers' name in purple for descriptions and ordering information for each book. To see a concise list of all the titles we displayed in Chicago, open the (pdf) 2007 Exhibition Catalogue.

Be sure to see Was There Ever a 'British' Literature? by Alan Riach, which was included in our gift bags at the MLA convention in December. You can download the article from this website. Click on the image to the left to see a larger photo of the gift bag.

See the MLA 2007 Scottish sessions in Chicago.

Individual Scottish titles

These titles are contributed to the Scottish Writing Exhibition by various publishers and authors. As with all our titles, they are chosen especially for the MLA convention. You can browse the summary below and visit the Individual Scottish Titles page for details.

• The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett, Paul-Gabriel Boucé (ed.)
• Caribbean-Scottish Relations: Colonial & Contemporary Inscriptions in History, Language & Literature by Carla Sassi, Giovanna Covi, Joan Anim-Addo and Velma Pollard (eds.)
• Culture, Nation and the New Scottish Parliament by Caroline McCracken-Flesher (ed.)
• The Devil's Footprints by John Burnside
• The Entail
by John Galt
• The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett, Lewis M. Knapp & Paul-Gabriel Boucé (intr. & eds.)
• The Fanatic by James Robertson
• James Hogg: A Bard of Nature’s Making by Valentina Bold
• John Stewart of Baldynneis' Roland Furious: A Scots Poem in its European Context by Donna Heddle (ed.)
• Joseph Knight by James Robertson
• The Literature of Scotland by Rory Watson
• Northern Heritage: On Scotland in the Northern Periphery by Donna Heddle
• Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow by Caroline McCracken-Flesher
• The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's 'Romantick' Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness by Matthew Wickman
• Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh by Ian Duncan
• The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies by Robert Kirk, introduced by Marina Warner

Argyll Publishing

Selected Stories by Brian McCabe
Amada's Bed (Aberdein)
Seanchas Ìle | Islay's Folklore Project
Scottish Review of Books

Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)

The Devil to Stage: Five Plays by James Bridie (ed. Carruthers)
New Writing Scotland 25 (series eds. Liz Niven and Brian Whittingham)
Clan-Albin: A National Tale, Christian Isobel Johnstone (ed. Monnickendam)
Modernism and Nationalism: Literature & Society in Scotland 1918–1939 (ed. Palmer McCulloch)
Sir David Lyndsay: Selected Poems (ed. Janey Hadley Williams)
The Scotswoman at Home and Abroad ed. Dorothy McMillan
Scottish Studies Review (journal)
Scottish Language (journal)

Birlinn Books

Author profile — Robin Jenkins:
Some Kind of Grace (Jenkins)
The Pearl Fishers (Jenkins)
Love is a Fervent Fire (Jenkins)
The Thistle and the Grail (Jenkins)
Poverty Castle (Jenkins)
PLUS:
Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction (eds. Wilson and Williamson)
Luckenbooth An Anthology of Edinburgh Poetry (ed. McGregor)
Shadow of the Serpent (Ashton)
Songbook of the Pillagers: Anthology of Scottish Gaelic Verse to 1600 (eds. Bateman and McLeod)
Three Go Back (Gibbon)

Bloodaxe Books

Darling (Kay)
Mischief Night (Lumsden)
Almanacs (Hadfield)
Bad Shaman Blues (Herbert)

Canongate Books

Carcanet Press

Edwin Morgan: New Collected Poems
Edwin Morgan: A Book of Lives
Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poems
Iain Crichton Smith: Collected Poems
From Wood to Ridge (MacLean)
Robert Henryson: Selected Poems
All the Poems (Spark)
Border Ballads: a selection (ed. Reed)
Frank Kuppner: A God's Breakfast (Kuppner)
Greenfields (Price)
In My Father's House (Kinloch)

Edinburgh University Press

The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature (3 vols.)
Transatlantic Literary Studies (ed. Manning)
From Trocchi to Trainspotting: Scottish Critical Theory Since 1960 (C. Whyte)
Concise Scots Dictionary (Scottish Language Dictionaries)
Pocket Scots Dictionary (Scottish Language Dictionaries)
Associationism and the Literary Imagination (Craig)
Scotland and the Abolition of Black Slavery (I. Whyte)
Scottish Fiction and the British Empire (Mack)
Shorter Fiction [Walter Scott] (ed. Tulloch)
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (ed. Davies)
Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland (2 vols.)

Gaelic Books Council

Soirbheas/Fair Wind (Bateman)
Na Klondykers (MacLeòid)
Na Klondykers [DVD] (MacLeòid)
Laoidh an Donais Òig/Hymn to a Young Demon (MacNeacail)
Sgeulachdan an Dà Shaoghail (Newton)
Litir à Ameireagaidh (NicDhòmhnaill)

Itchy-Coo Books

Hercules: Bampots and Heroes (Fitt)
Katie's Ferm (Robertson & Fitt)
Geordie's Mingin Medicine by Roald Dahl (transl. Fitt)
Animal ABC (Rennie)
Blethertoun Braes (eds. Fitt & Robertson)
The Smoky Smirr o Rain: A Scots Anthology (Fitt & Robertson)
The Compact Coo [audio] (various contributors)

Luath Press

Me & Ma Gal (Dillon)
Luath Burns Companion (Cairney)
Dilys Rose: Selected Stories (Rose)
The Blue Moon Book (Macleod)
But n Ben a-Go-Go (Fitt)
Parallel Worlds (deLuca)
Tartan and Turban (Fraser)
Burning Whins (Niven)
The English Spy (Smith)

Penguin Scotland

The Testament of Gideon Mack (Robertson)
Sunset Song (Gibbon, intr. Smith)
Kidnapped (Stevenson, ed. McFarlan)
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Hogg, ed. Miller)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Doyle, ed. Frayling)
Scotland's Books: The Penguin History of Scottish Literature (ed. Crawford)

Saltire Society

Why Scottish Literature Matters (Sassi)
Adam Blair (Lockhart)
A Window in Thrums (Barrie)
Annals of the Parish (Galt)
A Scottish Postbag (eds. Bruce & Scott)
Spirits of the Age (ed. Scott)

Scottish Cultural Press

Scottish Literature in the Twentieth Century (ed. McCordick)
Discovering Scottish Writers (eds. Reid & Osborne)
Pursuit: Poems 1986-1998 (Bruce)
Distances – A Personal Evocation of People and Places (Conn)
John Buchan: Collected Poems (Lownie & Milne)
The Missing Days: Collected Poems (Steven)
A Highland Trilogy (Steven)
After the Watergaw – A collection of new poetry from Scotland, inspired by water (ed. Davidson)

Scottish Poetry Library

Intimate Expanses (eds. Cockburn and Marsack)
How to Address the Fog (ed. Anni Sumari)
Light Off Water (eds. Pelegrí and Crowe)
Gaelic Sampler (ed. and intr. Whyte)
Scotlands: Poet and the Nation (eds. Gifford and Riach)
The Battle of Bannockburn (transl. Morgan)
100 Favourite Scottish Poems (ed. Conn)

Scottish Text Society

Barbour's Bruce (ed. Skeat)
Hary's wallace (ed. McDiarmid)
The Older Scots Vowels by A.J. Aiken (ed. Macafee)
The Poems of Alexander Montgomerie (ed. Cranstoun)
Satirical Poems at the Time of Reformation (ed. Cranstoun)

Make sure to visit , an excellent resource on all Scottish publications, brought to you by Publishing Scotland.

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