1. Feb 18-Introductory Session

2. Feb 25^h-Medieval Scottish Literature- The Scottish Chaucerians and The Reformation

Texts: The Testament of Cressid/The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo/The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie/The Cherry and the Sloe/The Lament for the Makaris/

3. Mar 4^- The Decline of Drama :A Satire of the Three Estates- Sir David Lyndsay and Early Drama.

Texts: George Buchanan-Elegy for John Calvin/Arthur Johnston- Edinburgh/Glasgow/Sir David Lyndsay-The Satire of the Three Estates/ John Knox-On Rebellion/First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women

4. Mar 11^- Other Tongues: Latin Verse and the Shift to English. Ballads George Buchanan and Arthur Johnson

5.Mar18^-Pre- Romanticism- Burns - Tam O'Shanter/To a mouse/Ae fond kiss +various verse epistles (texts will be posted to Dropbox)

6. Mar 25: Scottish Romanticism

Sir Walter Scott-Waverley (Extracts only) the Lay of the Last Minstrel

James Hogg-The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Extracts only)

7. Apr 1: Scottish Victorian Literature

Texts: R.L Stevenson- Jekyll& Hyde , JM.Barrie-Peter Pan, George MacDonald Faery Stories, James Thomson City of Dreadful Night

8. Apr 8: Female Voices-Woman Writers in the 19^th/20^th C

Margaret Oliphant -Miss Marjoribanks , Mary Brunton-Self-control/Discipline, Marion Angus-Alas, Poor queen! Violet Jacob-Flemington.

9. Apr 15 : The Scottish Literary Renaissance and Modernism

Texts: T.S.Eliot- Was There a Scottish Literature?(The Athenaeum,1919)

Hugh MacDiarmid- A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle/On a Raised Beach/The Watergaw

10. Apr 22 -20^th C Scottish Dramatic Revivals

Texts:- Mary Queen of Scots got her Head Chopped off- Liz Lochhead, The Seal Wife-Sue Glover, The Cheviot ,The Stag and the Black, Black Oil-John McGrath, Dunsinane-David Greig,Black Watch-Gregory Burke(Extracts to be provided on Dropbox)

11. Apr 29– Interventions

Texts: Alasdair Gray-Lanark, James Kelman- How Late it was, How Late, Irvine Welsh-Filth, Janice Galloway- The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Alan Warner-Morvern Callar, Emma Tenant-Faustine

12. May 6- “Stands Scotland Where it Did?”-Speculations on the Future.

Texts: The Wasp Factory-Ian Banks, Ken MacLeod-The Human Front, Michel Faber-Under the Skin, James Robertson-And the Land Lay Still.

13. May 13-Course Conclusion. Final Essay Submissions and Final Admin.