Studies in Scottish Literature 42: 1 [Mīkstie vāki]

With this issue, after many years of annual publication, Studies in Scottish Literature begins pubishing two issues a year. Founded in 1963, as the first refereed scholarly journal in its field, it remains a leading international forum for scholarly discussion and research, in a field of growing iimportance. Edited by Patrick Scott and Tony Jarrells, of the University of South Carolina, with the support of a distinguished advisory board, the journal publishes articles on all periods of Scottish literature. The issue opens with Murray Pittock’s W. Ormiston Roy Memorial Lecture, “Who Wrote the Scots Musical Museum?” Full-length articles include: Gerard Lee McKeever on Robert Burns’s Tam o’ Shanter; Barbara Leonardi on James Hogg’s The Brownie of Bodsbeck; Margery Palmer McCulloch on Edwin Muir and War; and Richard Rankin Russell on George Mackay Brown’s Greenvoe. The issue concludes with an illustrated note on Burns’s manuscript for the song “As I walk’d by mysel,” reviews of books on Scottish cultural identity and on Adam Smith, and shorter notices of twenty-six other recent publications in the field.