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The nineteenth century saw the romanticisation of the Highlander, the rise of tartanry and the em...
The European age of empires launched a process of capitalist globalisation that continues to the ...
This volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children's lite...
Scotland's sense of national identity and cultural distinctiveness has long been articulated thro...
In 1810 a literary phenomenon swept through Britain, Europe and beyond: the publication of Sir Wa...
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) is today known almost exclusively for one work: Peter Pan. Yet he was th...
James Macpherson's 'Poems of Ossian', first published from 1760 as Fragments of Ancient Poetry, w...
A range of leading international scholars provide the reader with a comprehensive and accessible ...
The notion of 'freedom' has long been associated with a number of perceptions deemed fundamental ...
John Galt (1779-1839) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen, and a friend and bi...