Craig W Cairns

Alan Cairns

Hugh Alan Craig Cairns, OC, FRSC (born March 2, 1930) is a Canadian political science professor emeritus. Born in Galt (now part of Cambridge, Ontario), he

The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination

In the last quarter century, Scottish novelists from Muriel Spark, Alasdair Gray and Allan Massie to James Kelman, Janice Galloway, A.L. Kennedy and Irvine Welsh have achieved significant international success. In The Modern Scottish Novel Cairns Craig shows how the work of such writers is construct...

History of Scottish Literature: The Twentieth Century

Out of History: Narrative Paradigms in Scottish and British Culture (Determinations)

Twentieth Century Scottish Drama (Canongate Classics)

Edited and introduced by Cairns Craig and Randall Stevenson. Ever since the major revival of dramatic writing and production in the 1970s, the style and the subject matter of Scottish writing for stage and screen has been a continuing influence on our contemporary culture, exciting, offending and ch...

Iain Banks's Complicity: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)

This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from 'The Remains of the Day' to 'White Teeth'. A team of contemp...

Romantic Empiricism: Poetics and the Philosophy of Common Sense 1780-1830 (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture)

Romantic Empiricism is a timely collection of essays by established and emerging scholars, which represents a paradigm shift for the study of British Romanticism. The volume challenges the received view that German Idealist philosophy constitutes the main intellectual reference point for British Rom...

Vita Mea: The Autobiography of Sir Herbert J. C. Grierson

Herbert J. C. Grierson was only 28 when he was appointed Professor of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen in 1895. In the following quarter of a century he established himself as the most distinguished literary critic of his time: first, by the publication in 1912 of his edition of the ...

Scotland as Science Fiction (Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures)

Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international politics, ...