Kirsten Sandrock is Chair of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Würzburg. Her research ranges from the early modern literature and culture to contemporary Anglophone studies, and she has published widely on intercultural encounters, colonial and postcolonial studies, Shakespeare, travel writing, gender and genre studies. She is the author of Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603–1707 (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), co-editor of Locating Italy: East and West in British-Italian Transactions (2013) and of the Shakespeare Seminar Online.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Scottish Colonial Literature, 1603-17072. Shifting Paradigms: Nova Scotia and 'New' Scotland 3. Scotland's Atlantic Visions, 1660-1691 4. Darien, the Golden Dream 5. Conclusion: Failure and Scottish ColonialismWorks CitedIndex

Kirsten Sandrock’s Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707 is an academic text of the highest calibre on an all but forgotten period of Scottish literature.