Symposium to launch the School of Divinity’s new Scottish Network for Religion and Literature, organised in collaboration with Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century (SWINC).
Followed by a wine reception. All welcome.
Speakers
- Dr Elizabeth Elliott (Aberdeen): ‘Ane tomb of merbell gray’: Mourning and justice in Testament of Cresseid’
- Dr Robert Irvine (University of Edinburgh School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures): ‘Presbyterianism, ‘Scottish Literature’ and John Galt’s Annals of the Parish’
- Professor David Jasper (Edinburgh): ‘Margaret Oliphant: A woman writer and
- churchmen in 19th century Scotland’
- Dr Linden Bicket (Edinburgh): ‘The “writer who happens to be a Catholic” and 20th century literary criticism’
- Dr Alison Jack (Edinburgh): ‘Hearing competing voices in James Robertson’s The Fanatic.’
- James Robertson (novelist): response
