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scotlit, 6 months ago to bookstodon

“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:

#Scottish #literature #20thCentury #novella #JMBarrie

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enjQUoqUpy4

scotlit, 6 months ago to bookstodon

“In story after story, epicene young men, difficult children, or wild beasts set out to shake up the stifling complacency around them.”

Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – was born #OTD, 18 Dec, in Akyab (now Sittwe), in Myanmar. Although born in the Raj & raised in England, his parents were Scots & he considered himself to be Scottish, too. Fatema Ahmed looks at his fierce, funny, & wicked fiction

#Scottish #literature #shortstories #Saki

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https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/43602/untameable-saki

scotlit, 6 months ago to litstudies

CFP: “Scotland 30 years after Trainspotting”
Études écossaises, UGA éditions, Université Grenoble Alpes

This issue of Études écossaises seeks to take TRAINSPOTTING’s unique depiction of Scottish society as the starting point for an
investigation into the nature of contemporary Scottish life & how it has evolved between 1993 & 2023. Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2024

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#Scottish #literature #Trainspotting #culture #CulturalStudies #CallForPapers

https://sfee.fr/1742-2/

scotlit, 6 months ago to litstudies

“The effect of the piece, read all at once, is exhilarating. It’s quite like reading a book of interviews with V. S. Naipaul. Three quarters of the world’s literature is dismissed with mandarin contempt, and yet the unmistakable love of good writing is everywhere on display.”

Anthony Madrid on the rigmarole William Drummond of Hawthornden produced, of Ben Jonson’s conversations

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#Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #17thcentury

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/06/30/the-whole-rigmarole/

scotlit, 6 months ago to litstudies

Two known readers in Early Modern Scotland: William Scheves & George Buchanan
14 Dec, Edinburgh & online: free

Francesca Pontini – a postgraduate student at the University of Stirling – looks at reading habits of 2 #EarlyModern Scots

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#Scottish #literature #history #16thCentury #BookHistory

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/francesca-pontini-two-known-readers-in-early-modern-scotland-tickets-720342964197

scotlit, 6 months ago to bookstodon

GRANITE NOIR 2024
Aberdeen’s #CrimeFiction Festival
20–25 February

Granite Noir is inspired by crime fiction in all its forms, by the fantastic contribution that #Scottish writers make, by our love affair with #Nordic Noir, & most of all inspired by Aberdeen – steeped in history, atmospheric, quirky & with a strong sense of place

The programme for the 2024 Festival is now online

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https://www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/granite-noir/

scotlit, 6 months ago to litstudies

George MacDonald (1824–1905) was born #OTD, 10 Dec. Seen by many as the forefather of modern #fantasy fiction, he was a huge influence on later writers including JRR #Tolkien & #CSLewis

“The sheer imaginative force of LILITH makes nonsense of our everyday notions of ‘good writing’. MacDonald aims not to make us read, but to make us dream”

David Melville Wingrove on LILITH, MacDonald’s last – & very strange – major work

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/beautiful-terrors-george-macdonald-and-lilith/

scotlit, 6 months ago to litstudies

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

#Scottish #literature #symbolism #HistoricalFiction #20thCentury

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https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/

scotlit, 6 months ago to litstudies

cfp: DEVILS & JUSTIFIED SINNERS
24–25 Aug 2024
An online conference from Romancing the Gothic to mark the 200th anniversary of James Hogg’s THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS & CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER – seeking papers on

⛪ The theological in the #Gothic & #horror
😈 The demonic in #literature, #folklore & #film
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Scottish Gothic & horror traditions

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https://romancingthegothic.com/2023/09/04/devils-and-justified-sinners-2024-conference/

scotlit, 6 months ago to litstudies

“What sprang forth from Carlyle’s pen was not a dry account of the French Revolution, but a book brimming with passion and philosophy, one that offered a new style of storytelling that influenced a generation of Victorian writers.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) was born #OTD, 4 Dec. His THE FRENCH REVOLUTION established him as one of the most important social & cultural commentators of his day

#Scottish #Victorian #literature #history #19thCentury

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https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2009/marchapril/feature/the-voracious-pen-thomas-carlyle

scotlit, 6 months ago to random

Robert Louis Stevenson died #OTD, 3 December, 1894. He is buried on Mt Vaea, on the island of Upolu in #Samoa 🇼🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

📷Thomas Andrew (1855–1939): Burial of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1894 / Le maliu o Tusitala i le tausaga 1894

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #RobertLouisStevenson
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burial_and_grave_of_Robert_Louis_Stevenson_in_Samoa,_1894.jpg

scotlit, 6 months ago to litstudies

Helen Craik’s “lost” poetry now found

The #Scottish writer published five #gothic romance novels by the early 1800s but never put her #poetry in print. In 1919, excerpts of her poetry appeared in a newspaper, but the source of these poems – a notebook she presented to a family friend – disappeared. Now Craik’s poetry manuscript has been found & published by two @uofsc faculty members

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#literature #18thCentury #19thCentury #WomenWriters

https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/about/news/2023/helen_craik.php

scotlit, 6 months ago to bookstodon

“A little more than ten years after his death, we are experiencing a timely, double-pronged Banks bump. His 13 sci-fi books as Iain M Banks are being reissued this month with eye-catching new cover art […] Even more exciting: the recent publication of behind-the-curtain coffee table tome The Culture: The Drawings, collating his earliest conceptual designs for what would become his signature sci-fi creation.”

#Scottish #literature #IainMBanks #TheCulture

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https://www.eurogamer.net/remembering-iain-banks-a-prolific-terrific-talent

scotlit, 6 months ago to bookstodon

“The magic for me growing up was that, behind closed doors, there were these interesting, eccentric characters. They were doing strange and fascinating things – in Airdrie. Think about that: how hard it must have been to be Iggy Pop here. Harder than being Iggy Pop wherever the real one was hanging out.”

THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE author David Keenan on growing up in Airdrie, & why small towns should be loved & cherished more

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#Scottish #literature

https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/books/interview-author-david-keenan-on-the-magic-of-airdrie-i-wanted-to-fly-in-the-face-of-grim-stuff-and-be-affirmative-and-celebratory-about-the-small-town-experience-4424196

scotlit, 7 months ago to litstudies

Gothic Warnings: Jekyll and Hyde, Dorian Gray, Dracula, & the Anthropocene
29 Nov, University of Aberdeen, & online. Free

Dr Emily Alder reconsiders these famous #Gothic works in light of the #Anthropocene, a concept used to describe the impact of human activities on Earth systems & in which the #Victorian period is deeply implicated

#19thCentury #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #JekyllandHyde #OscarWilde #DorianGray #BramStoker #Dracula

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https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sll/events/19767/

scotlit, 7 months ago to litstudies

Approaching the Scottish Seventeenth Century

Monday 27 Nov, University of Sussex, & online. Free

This masterclass invites scholars of pan-#British seventeenth-century #literature to a day full of workshop & round-table discussion on the skills & knowledge needed to approach texts in the #Scottish #17thcentury corpus

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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/approaching-the-scottish-seventeenth-century-a-masterclass-hosted-by-sscsl-tickets-710143788187

scotlit, 7 months ago to bookstodon

Ninety-Nine Novels: LANARK by Alasdair Gray

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.

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #AlasdairGray

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https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/ninety-nine-novels-lanark-by-alasdair-gray/

scotlit, 7 months ago to bookstodon

A new look for Iain M. Banks

“The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre”

Orbit Books are reissuing all of Iain M. Banks’s #ScienceFiction novels with new cover designs

#Scottish #literature #IainMBanks #TheCulture #bookcovers

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https://www.orbit-books.co.uk/orbit-books-news/2023/10/03/iain-m-banks-reissues/

scotlit, 7 months ago to bookstodon

Elspeth Barker (1940–2022) was born #OTD, 16 November

Maggie O’Farrell called Barker’s classic O CALEDONIA

“one of those books you proselytize about; you want to beckon others aboard its glorious train. … I once decided to become friends with someone on the sole basis that she named O CALEDONIA as her favourite book”

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#Scottish #literature #WomenWriters

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https://lithub.com/maggie-ofarrell-on-elspeth-barkers-modern-scottish-classic-o-caledonia/

scotlit, 7 months ago to litstudies

New!
POEMS BY A LADY
by Helen Craik
Ed. by Rachel Mann & Patrick Scott

The #poetry of Helen Craik (1751–1825), #Gothic novelist & friend of #RobertBurns, was long thought lost. The rediscovery of her 1790 #manuscript “Poems by a Lady”, transcribed here for the first time, invites a fresh evaluation of her life & work, & adds to the critical reassessment of poetry by #Scottish women in the #Romantic era

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#literature #18thcentury #Romanticism #WomenWriters

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/poems-by-a-lady/

scotlit, 7 months ago to bookstodon

SINS AND FOLLIES
Three tales of dastardly deeds, by Robert Louis Stevenson

🗡️ “A Lodging for the Night”
🪞 “Markheim”
💀 “The Body-Snatcher”

Download the free ebook 👇

#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #19thCentury #gothic #RLSDay

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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/sins-and-follies-2/

scotlit, 7 months ago to bookstodon

“John Burnside, the winner of the 2023 David Cohen Prize for a life-time’s literary achievement, is a poet, novelist, story-writer, memoirist, and essayist. He has been writing every imaginable kind of book – and some unimaginable kinds – for at least 35 years.”

The David Cohen Prize, currently in its 30th anniversary year, is awarded biennially to one writer from the UK or Ireland for their complete body of work.

#Scottish #literature

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https://newwritingnorth.com/john-burnside-wins-the-david-cohen-prize-for-literature-2023/

scotlit, 7 months ago to litstudies

“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

#literature

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https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/

scotlit, 7 months ago to bookstodon

“Most times when people in Scotland – or in other working class communities outwith the south east – see their lives, they’re gross caricatures supposed to represent a sort of ultra-realism. Being made to feel like an exhibit is never good.”

Graeme Armstrong discusses his award-winning debut novel THE YOUNG TEAM, & the language & lived experience behind its narrative

#Scottish #literature #workingclass

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https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/interview/graeme-armstrong

scotlit, 7 months ago to bookstodon

More Books About Buildings & Crime
14 Nov, Scottish Parliament, #Edinburgh – free & all welcome

Maps, floor-plans & architectural features matter in #CrimeFiction, & writers have often exploited the symbolic & structural significance of buildings as framing devices.

Author Liam McIlvanney looks at important buildings in the #Scottish crime canon, in works from #RobertLouisStevenson to Abir Mukherjee.

#Literature #TartanNoir

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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-books-about-buildings-and-crime-tickets-745146000747?aff=oddtdtcreator

scotlit, 7 months ago to litstudies

#CallForPapers
GIFCon 2024: Conjuring Creatures & Worlds
Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations 2024
15–17 May, University of Glasgow & online

Papers invited from researchers & practitioners working in the field of #fantasy & the fantastic across all media, within the academy or beyond it

#literature #speculativefiction #magic

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https://fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2023/11/02/gifcon-2024-conjuring-creatures-and-worlds-call-for-papers/

scotlit, 7 months ago to bookstodon

“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

#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury

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https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/why-you-should-read-a-green-equinox-by-elizabeth-mavor

scotlit, 7 months ago to bookstodon

“They were both experienced in such affairs, and powerful with the spade; and they had scarce been twenty minutes at their task before they were rewarded by a dull rattle on the coffin lid.”

—Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Body-Snatcher”, read by Sir Christopher Lee

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#Scottish #literature #horror #gothic #RobertLouisStevenson #19thCentury

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_sCy9ABGbI

scotlit, 7 months ago to bookstodon

Author James Kelman joins the Unburied Books Podcast to discuss James Hogg’s THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS & CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER, originally published in 1824.

The podcast discusses the novel’s unusual structure, moral ambiguity, & mixture of genres. Kelman offers historical insight into the book’s philosophy & places the work in a modern, international context.

#Scottish #literature #Romanticism #Gothic #19thCentury #JamesHogg

@litstudies

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https://unburied-books.castos.com/episodes/the-private-memoirs-and-confessions-of-a-justified-sinner-with-james-kelman

scotlit, 7 months ago to bookstodon

Strange Tales: Three Uncanny Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson

Get ready for #Halloween with three eerie tales of witches, warlocks, & demonic pacts from #RobertLouisStevenson

“Thrawn Janet”, read by Alan Bissett

“The Tale of Tod Lapraik”, read by James Robertson

“The Bottle Imp”, read by Louise Welsh

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rylwyc21OZk&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WYOG6kLZZMaWKpElKSPgJ4y&index=2

scotlit, 7 months ago to litstudies

“The Life of Samuel Johnson was an instant sensation. While the works of Johnson were quickly forgotten, his biography has never been out of print”
—When the Worst Man in the World Writes a Masterpiece: James Boswell & the Nature of Genius

James Boswell (1740–1795) was born #OTD, 29 October – happy birthday, Bozzy!

#Scottish #literature #JamesBoswell #SamuelJohnson #18thCentury #biography

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https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/10/22/when-the-worst-man-in-the-world-writes-a-masterpiece/

scotlit, 8 months ago to litstudies

James Macpherson (1736–1796), of “Ossian” fame, was born #OTD, 27 Oct. The “Ossian” poems were the literary sensation of the #18thcentury, attracting rapturous admiration from figures such as Goethe, Diderot, Jefferson, Bonaparte, & Mendelssohn; they inspired the Grimms to collect German folktales, & Elias Lönnrot to compile Finnish poems into the Kalevala. They are the founding texts of European #Romanticism & of modern #fantasy

#Scottish #literature

@litstudies

http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/models-and-stereotypes/anglophilia/gauti-kristmannsson-ossian-the-european-national-epic-1760-1810

scotlit, 8 months ago to random

🚨 ONE WEEK LEFT🚨

#Writers – send your work to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 42!
We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. Submission is free & all successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 October!

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#Scottish #literature #writing #writingcommunity #iamwriting #shortstories #poetry

Submit online via Submittable 👇
https://nws.submittable.com/submit