Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-273) and index.

Preliminary Material / Scott Lyall -- Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel / Scott Lyall -- The Lonely Island: Exile and Community in Recent Island Writing / Timothy C. Baker -- Individual, Community and Conflict in Scottish Working-Class Fiction, 1920–1940 / H. Gustav Klaus -- Speaking for Oneself and Others: Real and Imagined Communities in Gaelic Poetry from the Nineteenth Century to the Present / Emma Dymock -- Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community / Scott Lyall -- Becoming Anon: Hamish Henderson, Community and the ‘Folk Process’ / Corey Gibson -- The Alternative Communities of Alexander Trocchi / Gill Tasker -- Scottish Drama: The Expanded Community / Trish Reid -- Alienation and Community in Contemporary Scottish Fiction: The Case of Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing / Alex Thomson -- From Subtext to Gaytext? Scottish Fiction’s Queer Communities / Carole Jones -- ‘Maybe Singing into Yourself’: James Kelman, Inner Speech and Vocal Communion / Scott Hames -- The New Scots: Migration and Diaspora in Scottish South Asian Poetry / Bashabi Fraser -- Community Spirit? Haunting Secrets and Displaced Selves in Contemporary Scottish Fiction / Monica Germanà -- Bibliography / Scott Lyall -- Index / Scott Lyall.

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Community in Modern Scottish Literature is the first book to examine representations and theories of community in Scottish writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries across a broad range of authors and from various conceptual perspectives. The leading scholars in the field examine work in the novel, poetry, and drama, by key Scottish authors such as MacDiarmid, Kelman, and Galloway, as well as less well known writers. This includes postmodern and postcolonial readings, analysis of writing by gay and Gaelic authors, alongside theorists of community such as Nancy, Bauman, Delanty, Cohen, Blanchot, and Anderson. This book will unsettle and yet broaden traditional conceptions of community in Scotland and Scottish literature, suggesting a more plural idea of what community might be.