Regina Hewitt, ed., John Galt: Observations and Conjectures

Review of collection of scholarly essays on the Scottish novelist and poet John Galt (1779-1839), who was also a pioneer in Canadian fiction

Introduction: Cultural Nationalism in Scottish Literary Studies: the View from Elsewhere

Introduces the issues and contributors to this post-Referendum SSL symposium, on non-Scottish perspectives on Scottish cultural nationalism, which includes discussions of teaching Scottish literature in Italy, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States, together with a response from a senior Scottish scholar, notes the interest elsewhere in contemporary Scottish writing, and suggests that the effect of the debates surrounding the Referendum, and the involvement of many writers in it, will have a continuing effect on the future of Scottish literary studies

Prelims, Preface to SSL 39: G. Ross Roy and Susan Manning

Preface includes information on usage of the digital version of Studies in Scottish Literature in its first year, together with short tributes to two board members who recently died, the journal\u27s founder G. Ross Roy, and Prof. Susan Manning of the University of Edinburgh

Preface to SSL 41

Reports the international readership of the journal and discusses the ways in which the journal, with a primary focus on Scottish literary studies, nonetheless recognizes that Scottish literature is of current political significance and interest

Preface to SSL 43:2

Introduces the two special sections in this issue, on Scottish fiction and Burns bibliography, and briefly describes the range of other contributions, noting the wide international range of contributors

Preface to SSL 42:1

Introduces the two special sections in this issue, on Scottish fiction and Burns bibliography, and briefly describes the range of other contributions, noting the wide international range of contributors

Prelims, Prefatory Note to SSL 37, Preface to Robert Burns & Friends

Prefatory note by Patrick Scott and Tony Jarrells, preface by Patrick Scott and Kenneth Simpso