Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature

Monika Szuba is Lecturer in English with the University of Gdańsk, Poland. Her research covers twentieth- and twenty-first century Scottish and English poetry and prose, with a particular interest in ecocriticism, informed by the Environmental Humanities. She is the author of Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson, White (forthcoming). She is co-editor, with Julian Wolfreys, of Reading Victorian Literature: Essays in Honour of J. Hillis Miller (forthcoming).Julian Wolfreys is an independent scholar, UK, and the author or editor of more than forty books, most recently Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture: 1800-Present (Palgrave 2018).

• Introduction: The Proximity of Scotland.- Location and Destination in Alasdair Mac Mhagihstir Alisdair’s ‘The Birlinn of Clanranald’, Alan Riach.- Troubled Inheritances in R. L. Stevenson’s Kidnapped and Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Priory School”, Tom Ue.- From Dramatic Space to Narrative Place: George Mackay Brown’s Time in a Red Coat, Paul Barnaby.- The Empty Places: Northern Archipelagos in Scottish Fiction, John Brannigan.- ‘Keep looking, even when there’s nothing much to see’: Reimagining Scottish Landscapes in Kathleen Jamie’s Non-Fiction, Ewa Chodnikiewicz.- Greenock-Outer Space: Place and Space in Ken McLeod’s The Human Front and Descent, Jessica Aliaga Lavriisen.- ‘The Wider Rootedness’: John Burnside’s Embodied Sense of Place, Monika Szuba.- ‘Under the Saltire Flag’: Kei Miller’s Spatial Negotiations of Identity, Bartosz Wójcik.- A World of Islands: Archipelagic Poetics in Modern Scottish Literature, Alexandra Campbell.- From ‘Pictish Artemis’ to ‘Tay Moses’: Visions of the River Tay in Some Contemporary Scottish Poems, Robin MacKenzie.- Derick Thomson’s An Rathad Cian (The Far Road, 1970): Modern Gaelic Poetry of Place between Introspection and Politics, Petra Johana Poncarová.- Glaswegian and Dundonian: Twa Mither Tongues Representing the Place and Space of Tom Leonard and Mark Thomson, Aniela Korzeniowska.- Take the Weather with You: Robin Robertson’s Northeast Atmospherics of Landscape and Self, Julian Wolfreys.- Jon Schueler (1916-1992): Intensity and Identity, Mary Ann Caws.