The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination 9780748674374

In the last quarter century, Scottish novelists from Muriel Spark, Alasdair Gray and Allan Massie to James Kelman, Janic

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The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination
9780748674374

Combining close textual readings with a broad theoretical perspective, this book is a study of the ways in which gender

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