“Farewell Miss Julie Logan: A Wintry Tale”, by J.M. Barrie
Written in diary form & telling of an uncanny romance in a remote winter glen, “Farewell Miss Julie Logan” evokes J.M. Barrie’s fascination with longing, death & loss in one of the most unnerving & tenacious examples of #Gothic fiction ever to come from #Scotland
Listen to the story online, courtesy of Romancing the Gothic:
Characterization & symbolism in Neil Gunn’s three historical novels
12 Dec, 5–6:30pm GMT/6–7:30 CET, free online
This talk will examine three historical novels by Neil M. Gunn (1891–1973), depicting Scottish communities at a time of transition: Sun Circle, Butcher’s Broom, & The Silver Darlings
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War
“An enthralling and insightful cultural history—one that shows how, over the course of one pivotal decade, love, freedom and the freedom to love gave way to fear, madness and despair.” —Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post Book Review
An ingeniously orchestrated popular history brings to life the most pivotal decade of the twentieth century.
📖 In "The Interwar World", edited by Andrew Denning and Heidi J.S. Tworek, more than 50 authors discuss, analyse and interpret this crucial period in the history of the 20th century.
It includes a chapter by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez on #Communism.
In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. This podcast by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation explores the novels on Burgess’s list with the help of writers, critics & other special guests.
This episode explores Alasdair Gray’s LANARK with writer & biographer Rodge Glass.
“Scotland’s a Sense of Change”: History in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair & James Robertson’s And the Land Lay Still
14 Nov, free online
Ilka Schwittlinsky looks at Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A SCOTS QUAIR & James Robertson’s AND THE LAND LAY STILL, & analyses changing #Scottish#identity in the #20thcentury by looking at their depiction of Scottish #history & life in #Scotland
“Given how neglected Mavor’s reputation is today, it might come as a surprise to learn that when she made the Booker shortlist she was 46 years old and the author of three previous novels and two biographies; all of which had been very well received.”
Elizabeth Mavor’s 1973 Booker-nominated novel A Green Equinox has just been republished, by McNally Editions in the US & as a Virago Modern Classic in the UK
Call for submissions: Moderns & Others: genre, gender, faith & form in noncanonical British literature
Deadline: 3 Nov 2023
To shift attention away from canonical categories (like modernism), the editors are keen to receive proposals for chapters that consider obscure, middlebrow or popular texts that are or have previously been excluded from processes of canonisation
Robin Jenkins (1912–2005), one of Scotland’s most prolific & acclaimed 20th-century novelists, was born #OTD, 11 Sept. In this paper from 2012, Dr Linden Bicket argues that Jenkins anticipates the urban realist fictions of Galloway, Kelman & Welsh
Exile & Expatriates in Robin Jenkins’ Novels
Études Écossaises 13 (2010)
Prof Bernard Sellin examines Robin Jenkins’ 9 novels & short story collections inspired by the author’s own experiences as a teacher in Afghanistan, Catalonia & Malaysia
A birthday 🧵 for Violet Jacob (1863–1946) – poet, novelist, short story writer, & key figure in the 20th-century Scottish renaissance & #Scots language revival – born #OTD, 1 September
John Buchan called FLEMINGTON – Violet Jacob’s novel of the 1745 #Jacobite uprising – “the best Scots romantic novel since The Master of Ballantrae”, & The List magazine chose it as one of their Best 100 Scottish Books of All Time
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“I think Trocchi is important, more so now than ever. We’re living in a time when the very ‘uncreative work’ against which he permanently struck is dominating culture…”
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“In an unpublished autobiographical novel… he used the experience of swinging on the trapeze over the pond at the Arlington Baths as a metaphor for childhood adventures around the tenements & streets of the West End”
4/5 #Scottish#literature#20thcentury
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The Alexander Trocchi papers—manuscripts, journals, notebooks, magazines & ephemera, including material relating to the International Situationist movement—are held at Washington University in St Louis
5/5 #Scottish#literature#20thcentury