Patrick Scott

Studies in Scottish Literature 45.1 Patrick Scott

This issue of Studies in Scottish Literature, the longest-running international journal in its field, includes articles by Nigel Leask on Philosophic Vagabonds (two students on a walking tour in the Highlands in 1801), Penny Fielding on Walter Scott, Border Law, and BorderMinstrelsy, Gerard Carruthers on W. S. Graham, and Tomás Monterrey on Muriel Spark's Territorial Rights, with shorter articles by Gerard Lee McKeever on a newly-identified manuscript letter to Robert Burns from the song editor George Thomson, Robert Betteridge on the Kilmarnock Burns, and Robert MacLean and Gerard Carruthers on a newly-discovered poem by the Victorian working-class writer Janet Hamilton, and with reviews of recent books on Gavin Douglas's Palyce of Honour, on the 17th century poet George Lauder, and on Scottish literature and the Geometric Imagination.