Introduction: A Glorious Phantom: Insurrections in Scottish Literature

Introduces the SSL symposium on Insurrections by tracing themes from James Kelman\u27s play Hardie and Baird: the Last Days (1978), about the Scottish Insurrection of 1820

Preface to SSL 47.1

Introduces the issue contents, pays brief tribute to six long-time Scottish literature scholars who have recently died (Michael Timko, Priscilla Bawcutt, Greg Kratzmann, Robert Donaldson, Thorne Compton, and Dorothy McMillan), notes that the journal has now surpassed 400,000 article downloads, and describes plans for forthcoming issues

Preface to SSL 48.2

Discusses the range of periods the journal covers, introduces current contents, pays brief tribute to the Hume scholar Donald T. Siebert and the Burns collector Frank R. Shaw, and alerts readers to editorial and publishing changes to be announced in the coming year

Series Editors\u27 Preface to SSL 48.1

A brief introduction with thanks to the guest editors, information about the cover illustration for the print issue, by John Duncan (1866-1945), and a note of plans for future issues

Preface to SSL 46.1

Introducing the issue, with brief tributes to three Scottish literature scholars who died in summer 2020: Colin Manlove, Aileen Christianson, and Douglas Gifford

Preface to SSL 45.2

A brief introduction to the issue contents, future issues, a 35% increase in 2018-2019 in use of the digital version, and a significant further gift to the journal\u27s endowment

Preface to SSL 45.1

Brief update on recent and future issues; tribute to Lucie C. Roy (1925-2018); update in journal endowment and article download statistics

Preface to SSL 47.2

Introduces the issue contents and briefly describes plans for forthcoming issues, and notes the recent deaths of two longtime SSL contributors, Henry L. Fulton (1935-2021) and Edward J. Cowan (1944-2022)

Preface to SSL 43:1

Discusses the interest of the editors in publishing articles on a wide range of Scottish authors, texts and periods

Preface to SSL 42:2

Preface articulating the purpose of the SSL symposium series and the symposium on Spatial Humanities, and a brief introduction to the other articles in the issue