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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: ASL

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781908980137

RRP: £14.95

PAGES: 192

PUBLICATION DATE:
September 30, 2015

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The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Scott Lyall

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell), the author of the acclaimed trilogy A Scots Quair, is one of the most important Scottish writers of the early twentieth century. This volume in the International Companions to Scottish Literature series gives a comprehensive overview of Gibbon’s writing, placing him in the broader context of the social, political, and literary developments of his time. A range of expert contributors demonstrate his continuing relevance both in Scotland and internationally, and provide readers with a comprehensive general introduction to his life and work.

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Scott Lyall

Scott Lyall’s main research interests are Modernism and Scottish Literature, especially of the 1920s and ’30s. His book Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry and Politics of Place: Imagining a Scottish Republic (Edinburgh University Press, 2006) emerged from doctoral study at the University of St Andrews and a spell as postdoctoral research fellow in Scottish and Irish Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He is co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid (2011) and editor of a recently published volume on the work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon (ASLS, 2015). He is currently lecturer and programme leader for English at Edinburgh Napier University.