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Kirsteen by Margaret Oliphant; ed. Anne M Scriven ASLS Annual Volume 40 – 2010 Margaret Oliphant’s novel Kirsteen is a startlingly modern tale whose powerful voice, narrative drive and ironic exposure of injustice and hypocrisy provide a fascinating perspective on women in Victorian society. |
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Makeshift and Hunger March by Dot Allan; ed. Moira Burgess ASLS Annual Volume 39 – 2009 Confronting issues of class and gender, Makeshift and Hunger March offer an insight into women’s lives in Scotland in the first half of the 20th century. They are also highly readable and enjoyable works of fiction by a writer who deserves rediscovery by a new generation. |
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The Cottagers of Glenburnie and other educational writing by Elizabeth Hamilton; ed. Pam Perkins ASLS Annual Volume 38 – 2008 First published in 1808, The Cottagers of Glenburnie is a lively and entertaining tale, with vivid depictions – and biting satires – of Scottish peasant life. It also skilfully discusses and dissects class issues, British imperialism, and war. |
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Scottish People’s Theatre Plays by Glasgow Unity Writers ed. Bill Findlay ASLS Annual Volume 37 – 2007 Glasgow Unity Theatre was perhaps the most celebrated and influential of mid-twentieth century Scottish theatre companies, with strong theatrical and political styles and commitments. This new publication allows five of their most important works to be read together, for the first time, and seen fully in the context of their period and influence:
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Voices From Their Ain Countrie The Poems of Marion Angus and Violet Jacob ed. Katherine Gordon ASLS Annual Volume 36 – 2006 2006 marks the 60th anniversary of the deaths of two significant 20th-century Scottish poets: Marion Angus and Violet Jacob. Passionate and radical, lyrical and rich in human experience, the poems of Marion Angus and Violet Jacob will delight and captivate. More than 200 poems are included in this comprehensive anthology, along with an overview of each poet’s life, a short synopsis of major themes in their poetry, and notes on individual poems, providing an invaluable critical background for a full appreciation of their work. |
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The Devil to Stage Five Plays by James Bridie ed. Gerard Carruthers ASLS Annual Volume 35 – 2005 James Bridie is one of Scotland’s greatest playwrights, and one of the leading British dramatists of the 20th century. This collection of five acting scripts has been thoroughly corected and re-set, and brings some of Bridie’s greatest works back into the public domain:
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Serving Twa Maisters Five Classic Plays in Scots Translation ed. John Corbett & Bill Findlay ASLS Annual Volume 34 – 2004 The 1940s saw the birth of a modern tradition for translating drama into Scots. These translations helped place the vernacular at the heart of post-war Scottish drama. Serving Twa Maisters contains five classic works in this tradition:
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Modernism and Nationalism Literature & Society in Scotland 1918–1939 ed. Margery Palmer McCulloch ASLS Annual Volume 33 – 2003 An invaluable collection of source material for the 20th-century Scottish literary renaissance. Through excepts from periodicals, books, letters and other documents, Modernism & Nationalism brings us the voices of writers such as MacDiarmid, Gunn, Linklater, Compton Mackenzie, Naomi Mitchison, Edwin and Willa Muir, Catherine Carswell and many others, reviewing literary, social economic and political issues and providing new insights into the ideas behind the creative explosion of the period. | 
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Clan-Albin A National Tale Christian Isobel Johnstone; ed. Andrew Monnickendam ASLS Annual Volume 32 – 2002 Written in 1815, the year of Waterloo, Clan-Albin is an extraordinary Romantic novel which communicates the horrors and tragedies of war. Although the story ranges from Scotland to Ireland to Spain following the adventures of a young soldier, it is the voices of the strong female characters that we hear most clearly. |
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Dàin do Eimhir Poems to Eimhir Sorley MacLean; ed. Christopher Whyte ASLS Annual Volume 31 – 2001 Winner of the 2002 Saltire Society/National Library of Scotland Research Book of the Year award Widely regarded as his greatest achievement, MacLean’s cycle of love lyrics Dàin do Eimhir was only published in part in his lifetime; this edition includes six previously unpublished poems. With facing English translations throughout, Christopher Whyte’s authoritative and extensive commentaries help make a major masterpiece of 20th-century European literature fully available to the general public for the first time. |
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Sir David Lyndsay: Selected Poems ed. Janet Hadley Williams ASLS Annual Volume 30 – 2000 In the late sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a literate Scots household was likely to own two books: the Bible and the poems of Sir David Lyndsay. This collection is both an accessible introduction to new readers, for whom there are on-the-page annotations and references, and a valuable resource for specialists, who will wish to work with freshly-established texts. The explanatory notes illustrate the richness of Lyndsay’s language and those contemporary references now less known. An Introduction provides biographical information and discusses important features of Lyndsay’s poetry, and a full Bibliography offers further support for scholars. |
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The Scotswoman at Home and Abroad Non-Fiction Writing 1700–1900 ed. Dorothy McMillan ASLS Annual Volume 29 – 1999 Practical or whimsical, written for pleasure or for publication and profit, the extracts in this remarkable anthology provide a vivid cross-section of half of Scotland’s culture from 1700 to 1900, using texts that have fallen out of print and including some previously unpublished material. Issues of class, gender and society are boldly illustrated, and the private and public life of the times can be read out of these works in ways that would not perhaps be possible from male writing of the period. |
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The Poems of William Dunbar ed. Priscilla Bawcutt (in two volumes) ASLS Annual Volumes 27 & 28 – 1997 & 1998 Winner of the 1999 Saltire Society/National Library of Scotland Research Book of the Year award Priscilla Bawcutt’s edition of the poems of William Dunbar, the greatest Scottish poet of the sixteenth century, is an essential reference for all students of Scottish literature. As well as freshly established texts of every poem, this edition contains a full introduction, a complete listing of textual variants in all the early manuscripts and printings, extensive notes, a glossary and a list of sources and secondary material. |
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The Christis Kirk Tradition Scots Poems of Folk Festivity ed. Allan H MacLaine ASLS Annual Volume 26 – 1996 An anthology of twenty poems, ranging from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, from a vivid tradition of Scottish poetry describing all kinds of revelry, ribaldry, brawling and bungling. The loose narrative, based on the actions of rapidly-sketched characters, is swift-paced and full of robust movement and details. Each poem is presented with on-the-page glosses for ease of understanding, and with full introductions and notes. |
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Flemington Violet Jacob; ed. Carol Anderson ASLS Annual Volume 24 – 1994 John Buchan described Flemington as ‘the best Scots romance since The Master of Ballantrae’. Set in and around Montrose on the east coast of Scotland, Flemington is a gripping historical novel of action and intrigue in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, in which powerful characters are driven against each other by the political turmoil of their times. |
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The Tavern Sages Selections from the Noctes Ambrosianae ed. J. H. Alexander ASLS Annual Volumes 22, 1992 From 1822 until 1835 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine carried a series of seventy-one (largely) imaginary conversations between leading figures of the time: they are uninhibited, frequently scurrilous, often imaginative and extremely funny. Among the host of topics covered in this selection are the contemporaneous literary, artistic and political scenes, the 1822 visit of George IV to Edinburgh, swimming in the Firth of Forth, and gargantuan feastings and potations. Comprehensive explanatory notes are provided to allow the modern reader to appreciate the subtleties, as well as the broad humour, of the pieces. |
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The Complete Poems of Edwin Muir ed. Peter Butter ASLS Annual Volumes 21, 1991 All the poetry published by Muir in his lifetime is collected in this volume, plus those works published after his death and a number of poems and versions of poems left out of previous collections. Professor Butter’s notes identify when each of Muir’s poems were written, and where. He quotes earlier versions and Muir’s own comments, in letters and notebooks, on his poetry, its genesis and meaning. |
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The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton Thomas Hamilton; ed. Maurice Lindsay ASLS Annual Volumes 20, 1990 First published in 1827, The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton provides a vivid evocation of life in Glasgow, and of life in the old Glasgow University, just before the Industrial Revolution. It is on the whole a warmly sympathetic portrait, though Scots foibles, as pertinent today as they were nearly two centuries ago, are gently satirised. The novel also gives an account of the confusion and futility which characterises all wars, as experienced during the earlier part of the Peninsular campaign, in which the author was a serving officer. |
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The Comic Poems of William Tennant ed. Maurice Lindsay & Alexander Scott ASLS Annual Volumes 19, 1989 William Tennant (1784–1848) was the author of Anster Fair, one of the most popular comic poems of the nineteenth century. Couched in the Italian ottava rima stanza, it is thought that Byron may have adopted the stanza-form, including the far-fetched rhyme-scheme, for, among other poems, Beppo and Don Juan. In addition to Anster Fair, this volume includes Papistry Storm’d, a humourous account of the Knoxian mob-attack on the Cathedral of St Andrews, together with some examples of Tennant’s shorter pieces in Scots. |
Hbk: £8.95 |
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Last updated 15 December 2010