Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- J. Derrick McClure: An Appreciation / John M. Kirk and Iseabail Macleod -- J. Derrick McClure: List of Publications -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Textual Afterlives: Barbour’s Bruce and Hary’s Wallace / Jeremy Smith -- To bring my language near to the language of men? Dialect and Dialect Use in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: Some Observations / Robert McColl Millar -- Stour or Dour or Clour: An Overview of Scots Usage in Stevenson’s Works and Correspondence / Marina Dossena -- Pittin the Word(s) Oot: The Itchy Coo Experience of Publishing in Scots in the Twenty-first Century / James Robertson -- Loanwords in Scots: Some Reflections from Lexicography / Christine Robinson -- G.F. Savage-Armstrong’s Ballads of Down / Gavin Falconer -- Scots in Two Early Ulster Novels / Stephen Dornan -- The Linguistic Landscape of Eighteenth-Century South Argyll, as Revealed by Highland Scot Emigrants to North Carolina / Michael B. Montgomery -- Styles of Scots in Australian Literary Texts / Graham Tulloch -- How Gavin Douglas Handled Some Well-known Passages of Virgil’s Aeneid / Caroline Macafee -- Doric Orientalism: James Legge’s Translation of the Shi Jin, or Book of Poetry / Peih-ying Li and John Corbett -- Motivation and Politico-cultural Context in the Creation of Scots Language Versions of Greek Tragedies / Ian Brown -- Civil Service Scots: Prose or Poetry? / John M. Kirk -- Index.

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The skillful use of the Scots language has long been a distinguishing feature of the literatures of Scotland. The essays in this volume make a major contribution to our understanding of the Scots language, past and present, and its written dissemination in poetry, fiction and drama, and in non-literary texts, such as personal letters. They cover aspects of the development of a national literature in the Scots language, and they also give due weight to its international dimension by focusing on translations into Scots from languages as diverse as Greek, Latin and Chinese, and by considering the spread of written Scots to Northern Ireland, the United States of America and Australia. Many of the essays respond to and extend the scholarship of J. Derrick McClure, whose considerable impact on Scottish literary and linguistic studies is surveyed and assessed in this volume.