Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution

Scott Hames is Senior Lecturer in Scottish Literature at the University of Stirling, and author of The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution (EUP, 2020), which draws extensively on post-1960s magazines and their debates. With Malcolm Petrie, he led the AHRC-funded Scottish Magazines Network on which this book is based. With Eleanor Bell, he co-founded the International Journal of Scottish Literature. He has edited or co-edited closely related volumes on Scottish Writing After Devolution (EUP, 2022), Unstated: Writers on Scottish Independence (Word Power, 2012) and The Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman (EUP, 2010).

• Preface Introduction: The Dream and the Grind 1. Chaps with Claymores to Grind: Literary and Political Nationalism 1967-792. Machine Politics of British Devolution 1967-793. The Scottish Dimension: Cultural and Constitutional Politics 1979-19874. Claims of Right: Self-Determination and Consensus 1987-19925. And the Land Lay Still: Curating Devolution with James Robertson 6. Language Nationalism and Vernacular Literary Space7. Devolution and the Spectacle of Voice: Irvine Welsh, A.L. Kennedy, James KelmanConclusionBibliographyIndex

A major contribution to our understanding of Scottish cultural politics. In a rich and perceptive study, Scott Hames examines the disjunction between the literary Dream and the political Grind over the past half century.