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This cultural history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. It is one piece of the wider cultural award puzzle and illustrates how, far from being parochial or niche, lesser-known awards, whose histories may be yet untold, play their own role in the circulation of cultural value through the consecration of literary value. The study of the Society's Book of the Year and First Book of the Year Awards not only highlights how important connections between literary awards and national culture and identity are within prize culture and how literary awards, and their founding institutions, can be products of the socio-political and cultural milieu in which they form, but this study also illustrates how existing literary award scholarship has only begun to scratch the surface of the complexities of the phenomenon. This book promotes a new approach to considering literary prizes, proposing that the concept of the literary awards hierarchy can contribute to emerging and developing discourses pertaining to literary, and indeed cultural, prizes more broadly.

Literary prizes --- Scottish literature --- Awards. --- Scots literature --- British literature --- Saltire Society. --- Scotland.

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The Trojan legend became hot property during the Anglo-Scots Wars of Independence. During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, the English traced their ancestry to Brutus and the Trojans and used this origin myth tobolster their claims to lordship and ownership of Scotland; while in a game of political one-upmanship, and in order to prove Scotland's independence and sovereignty, Scottish historians instead traced their nation's origins to aGreek prince, Gaythelos, and his Egyptian wife, Scota. Despite the wealth of scholarship on the Trojan legend in English and European literature, very little has been done on Scotland's literary response to the same legend,even though a mere glance at the canonical material of late medieval Scotland indicates that it remained equally current north of the Border, a gap which this book fills. Through a detailed analysis of a range of Older Scots textsfrom c. 1375 to c. 1513, notably The Scottish Troy Book, Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, and Douglas' Eneados, it provides the first comprehensive assessment of the Scottish response to the Trojan legend. It considers the way in which Scottish texts interact with English counterparts, such as Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia, Chaucer's Troilus, Lydgate's Troy Book, and Caxton's Eneados, and demonstrates how despite - or perhaps because of - its use in the Anglo-Scots Wars of Independence, the Trojan legend was for the most part neither neglected nor pejoratively treated in Older Scots literature. Rather, the Matter of Troy and related Matter of Greece were used not just as an origin myth, but also a metaphor for Anglo-Scots political relations, guide to good governance, and locus through which poets might explore broader issues of literary tradition, authority, and the nature of poetic truth. Emily Wingfield is a lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham.

Scottish literature --- History and criticism. --- English literature --- Trojans in literature. --- Scottish authors --- Scots literature --- British literature --- Anglo-Scots Wars. --- Emily Wingfield. --- Matter of Greece. --- Matter of Troy. --- Older Scots texts. --- Scottish response. --- Trojan legend. --- literary tradition. --- manliness. --- origins. --- political relations.

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Scottish literature --- English literature --- Scottish literature. --- History and criticism --- Scottish authors --- Scottish authors. --- Scots literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- English Literature --- Littérature écossaise --- Littérature anglaise --- Histoire et critique --- Auteurs écossais --- 18.05 English literature.

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Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing: Crip Enchantments explores the intersection between imaginaries of disability and representations of work, welfare and the nation in twentieth and twenty-first century Scottish literature. Disorienting effects erupt when non-normative bodies and minds clash with the structures of capitalist normalcy. This book brings into conversation Scottish studies, disability studies and Marxist autonomist theory to trace the ways in which these “crip enchantments” are imagined in modern Scottish writing, and the “autonomist” narratives of disability by which they are evoked.

Scottish literature. --- Disabilities in literature. --- Communism in literature. --- Scots literature --- British literature --- Literature --- European literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Social justice. --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Literary Theory. --- European Literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Social Justice. --- European Culture. --- Philosophy. --- 20th century. --- Europe. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Equality --- Justice --- European literature --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Social aspects --- Theory

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This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day

History --- English literature --- Scotland --- Scottish Gaelic literature --- Scottish literature --- Women and literature --- Women --- Scottish authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Intellectual life. --- Intellectual life --- History and criticism --- In literature. --- Literature --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Gaelic literature --- Scots literature --- British literature --- LITTERATURE ECOSSAISE --- LITTERATURE GAELIQUE --- FEMMES --- FEMMES ET LITTERATURE --- ECOSSE (GRANDE-BRETAGNE) --- FEMMES ECRIVAINS --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- ECOSSE --- VIE INTELLECTUELLE --- DANS LA LITTERATURE