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Scottish Literature - quick starts

Reference Shelf

The Oxford Companion to Scottish History
ISBN: 9780199234820
The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
ISBN: 9781474436274
Mainstream Companion of Scottish Literature
ISBN: 9781851585830
The Burns Encyclopedia

Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL)

Histories

The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland (Vols. 2-4)

The International Companion to Scottish Literature, 1400-1650
ISBN: 9781908980236
The International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9781908980311
The Interntional Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature
ISBN: 9781908980359
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History
ISBN: 9780199563692

Newspapers & Periodicals

The Scotsman
Daily newspaper based out of Edinburgh. Available issues from 1860 to the present.
Studies in Scottish Literature
A refereed scholarly journal that publishes new research and critical debate on all periods of Scottish literature.
Scottish Literary Review
A peer-reviewed journal covering all periods of Scottish literature. Previously known as Scottish Studies Review.

Manuscripts & Ephemera

Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period includes poetry by Scottish women, written between 1789 and 1832, accompanying the texts are extensive bio-critical essays, as well as selected criticism from the critical bibliography compiled by the editors.

The Word on the Street
The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides lets you see for yourself what 'the word on the street' was in Scotland between 1650 and 1910.
Digital Resources from the National Library of Scotland
Includes manuscripts, chapbooks, and links to digital items in the library's archival collections.

Very Short Introductions

Scotland: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199230792

Intro Essays & Topic Overviews

The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment (2nd ed)
ISBN: 9781108420709
The International Companion to Scottish Poetry
ISBN: 9781908980151
The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing
ISBN: 9780748644322
The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures
ISBN: 9780748645404
The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism
ISBN: 9780748638451
The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature
ISBN: 9781282703070

Reading & Teaching the Literary Topic

Teaching Scottish Literature: Curriculum and Classroom Applications
ISBN: 9781474470483

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