Scottish Literature and World War I

Dr David Rennie is the author of American Writers and World War I and editor of Scottish Literature and World War I. His essays have appeared in The Hemingway Review, The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, and the Cambridge History of American Literature and Culture in the Great War.

• Introduction: ‘A reflection of the contrasts’: Scottish Literature and World War I David A. RenniePart One: Multi-text Case StudiesScottish Literature, Nationalism and the First World WarAlan Riach‘It Takes All Sorts to Make a Type’: Scottish Great War ProseDavid A. RennieUnquiet on the Home Front: Scottish Popular Fiction and the Truth of WarDavid Goldie‘One Who Has Sacrificed’: The Use of ‘High Diction’ in Women’s Correspondence to Scottish Newspapers during the First World WarSarah PedersenGaelic VerseRonald BlackGaelic ProseRonald BlackScottish Philosophy and the First World WarCairns CraigPart Two: Individual AuthorsWhat Next?: Nan Shepherd and the First World WarAlison LumsdenPagan Modernism: First World War and Spiritual Revival in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song and Neil M. Gunn’s Highland RiverScott LyallA Bounded Heaven: George A.C. Mackinlay and Great War PastoralRandall Stevenson Pastoral as Propaganda in John Buchan’s Wartime WritingFiona HoustonCharles Murray and A Sough o’ WarRobert Crawford‘But Change, Nothing Abides’: Sunset Song and the Nature of ChangeJohn LucasEwart Alan Mackintosh in Memoriam: Leadership, Patriotism, and Posthumous Commemoration Neil McLennanBibliography Index

The 600,000 men who fought in Scottish regiments or in the Navy and Air Force during the Great War fought for Scotland, to them a palpable space of affect and meaning. This important book of essays breaks new ground in capturing the ways that the Great War reconfigured the boundaries between Scottish and British culture.