The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Proximity of Scotland

Chapter 2 Location and Destination in Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair’s ‘The Birlinn of Clanranald’

Chapter 3 Troubled Inheritances in R. L. Stevenson’s Kidnapped and Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Priory School”

Chapter 4 From Dramatic Space to Narrative Place: George Mackay Brown’s Time in a Red Coat

Chapter 5 The Empty Places: Northern Archipelagos in Scottish Fiction

Chapter 6 ‘Keep Looking, Even When There’s Nothing Much to See’: Re-imagining Scottish Landscapes in Kathleen Jamie’s Non-fiction

Chapter 8 “The Wider Rootedness”: John Burnside’s Embodied Sense of Place

Chapter 9 “Under the Saltire Flag”: Kei Miller’s Spatial Negotiations of Identity

Chapter 10 A World of Islands: Archipelagic Poetics in Modern Scottish Literature

Chapter 11 From “Pictish Artemis” to “Tay Moses”: Visions of the River Tay in Some Contemporary Scottish Poems

Chapter 12 Derick Thomson’s An Rathad Cian ( The Far Road , 1970): Modern Gaelic Poetry of Place Between Introspection and Politics

Chapter 13 Glaswegian and Dundonian: Twa Mither Tongues Representing the Place and Space of Tom Leonard and Mark Thomson

Chapter 14 Take the Weather with You: Robin Robertson’s North-East Coast Atmospherics of Landscape and Self

Chapter 15 Jon Schueler (1916–1992): Intensity and Identity