The first applied research volume in Scottish Romanticism, this collection foregrounds the concept of progress as 'improvement' as a constitutive theme of Scott

This book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement, as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish context.

Edinburgh was an Enlightenment city of regional, national and global influence. But how did the people of Enlightenment Edinburgh understand and order their wor

A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present.