Throughout the twentieth century Scottish literary studies was
dominated by a critical consensus that critiqued contemporary
anti-Catholic by advancing a re-reading of the Reformation. This
consensus understood that Scotland's rich medieval culture had been
replaced with an anti-aesthetic tyranny of life and letters. As a
result, Scottish literature has consistently been defined in
opposition to the Calvinism to which it frequently returns. Yet, as
the essays in this collection show, such a consensus appears
increasingly untenable in light both of recent research and a more
detailed survey of Scottish literature. This collection launches a
full-scale reconsideration of the series of relationships between
literature and reformation in early modern Scotland. Previous
scholarship in this area has tended to dismiss the literary value
of the writing of the period - largely as a reaction to its regular
theological interests. Instead the essays in this volume reinforce
recent work that challenges the received scholarly consensus by
taking these interests seriously. This volume argues for the
importance of this religiously orientated writing, through the
adoption of a series of interdisciplinary approaches. Arranged
chronologically, the collection concentrates on major authors and
texts while engaging with a number of contemporary critical issues
and so highlighting, for example, writing by women in the period.
It addresses the concerns of historians and theologians who have
routinely accepted the established reading of this period of
literary history in Scotland and offers a radically new
interpretation of the complex relationships between literature and
religious reform in early modern Scotland.
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