Reading
Here is a list of the reading for this course.
We would strongly recommend our very own
- Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature, ed. Dermot Cavanagh et al, (Edinburgh, 2010).
This book contains essays by many members of the department, and is specifically designed to support first-year university study.
For shared lectures with English Literature 1 we recommend purchasing
- "The Norton Anthology of English Literature" (9th ed.) (Norton Paperback)
Students should obtain the full set. For ease of use, we recommend the six-volume set (volumes A-F, available in two bundles of three), but students should feel free to buy the two-volume version if they prefer.
N.B. it is essential that you have the 9th edition of this anthology.
Semester 1
- Douglas Dunn ed., 'Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry' (Faber, 2006)
- Mick Imlah and Robert Crawford eds., 'Scottish Verse' (Penguin, 2006)
- Muriel Spark, 'The Driver’s Seat' (Penguin, 2006)
- James Hogg, ‘The Barber of Duncow’
- R.L. Stevenson, ‘The Bottle Imp’
- R.L. Stevenson, 'Jekyll and Hyde' (World’s Classics, 2008)
- John McGrath, 'The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil' (Methuen Modern Plays, 1981)
- Liz Lochhead, 'Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off' (Nick Hern Books, 2009)
- Ena Lamont, 'Men Should Weep'
- John Milton, 'Paradise Lost' - Books 1, 2, 3, 4 & 9
- Alexander Pope, ‘The Rape of the Lock’
- Daniel Defoe, 'Robinson Crusoe' (Penguin)
- James Hogg, 'Confessions of a Justified Sinner' (Edinburgh University Press)
- Muriel Spark, 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' (Penguin)
- William Shakespeare, 'Richard III' (Penguin)
Semester 2
- Mick Imlah and Robert Crawford eds., 'Scottish Verse' (Penguin, 2006)
- Walter Scott, 'The Bride of Lammermoor' (World's Classics, 2008)
- R.L. Stevenson, 'Jekyll and Hyde' (World’s Classics, 2008)
- J.M. Barrie, 'Peter Pan and Other Plays' (World’s Classics, 2008)
- George Douglas Brown, 'The House with the Green Shutters' (Canongate, 1995)
- John Buchan, 'The Thirty Nine Steps' (Penguin, 2004)
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 'Sunset Song' (Polygon, 2006)
- Alasdair Gray, 'Lanark' (Canongate, 2001)
- Douglas Dunn ed., 'Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry' (Faber, 2006)
- Mick Imlah and Robert Crawford eds., 'Scottish Verse' (Penguin, 2006) [as above]
- James Kelman, 'Not Not While the Giro' (Polygon, 2007)
This article was published on Aug 22, 2012