Promoting and supporting the teaching and study of Scottish literature and language
Gerard Carruthers is Francis Hutcheson Professor of Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is also co-organiser of the Muriel Spark Centenary Symposium at Glasgow in association with the National Library of Scotland which will run 1st-2nd February 2018 with a special showing of the film of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the Kelvin Hall on the evening of 31st January 2018.
Two anecdotes. Firstly, when completing an MPhil dissertation on Muriel Spark (1918-2006) in the late 1980s, I happened to be in my parents’ house one day with several of Spark’s books which I had on the dining table. Later that afternoon I overheard a friend of my father’s (similar stamp to pater: left-wing trade unionist) […]
Sadly, early in 2013, Professor Susan Manning, Grierson Chair in English Literature and Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, passed away unexpectedly. Scottish, Transatlantic and eighteenth century literary and cultural studies (especially the Enlightenment) have lost a formidable intellectual presence. It is understood that a monograph by […]
What follows is a consideration of some of the more canonical moments in Scottish literature when the Devil features (or in some cases, as we shall see, fails to feature). Many more examples might be adduced, but those chosen here are selected not only for their prominence, but for the way in which they congregate […]