Scotlands

Volume 4 Issue 2 of Scotlands departs from the customary thematic content to bring together articles on different but exciting aspects of Scottish culture. Jamie Reid Baxter writes in detail about Scottish music in the Reformation, lamenting its neglect. Jane Stevenson, in a provocative study of Sir Walter Scott's third novel, The Antiquary, argues that he shared the obsession of his time with Scotland's Roman past. Tom Normand analyses in detail the meanings of Sir James Guthrie's painting The Hind's Daughter,and Gill Cuthbertson looks afresh at J M Barrie's treatment of his mother. Patricia Hodge brings together three poems, two Irish and one Scots, all related by form and subject, and Donald Wesling reads the Scottish novels of the 1980s against the background of the political fall-out from the referendum of 1979. Together these essays present new views of Scotland, new Scotlands to consider.