Introduction: The Proximity of Scotland
Monika Szuba and Julian Wolfreys
I Contested Beginnings
Location and Destination in Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair'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
II Essaying Place: Fiction and Non-Fiction Prose Representations 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
III Figuring Land, Figuring Self: Poetics
'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
IV Afterword: from word to image
Jon Schueler (1916-1992): Intensity and Identity
Mary Ann Caws
About the Author: 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).
