Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel (2016)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016). Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (1-24). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004317451_002

While ‘community’ as a concept has come under increasing attack in a neoliberal era, it has remained in Scotland a mythic, though not unexamined, signifier of resistance to perceived threats to national identity. Community, central to the Scottish no... Read More about Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel.

Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community (2016)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016). Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (82-102). Brill Academic Publishers

This chapter suggests two main related points. The overarching contention is that Hugh MacDiarmid was a poetic, political, polemical, and metaphysical impossibilist (rather than merely the extremist of caricature). More particularly, in an attempt to... Read More about Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community.

In search of community (2016)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016). In search of community. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (vii-xiii). Brill Academic Publishers

Community derives from the Latin root word communis (common), which itself breaks down into two possible derivations [...]. The first, com plus munis (what is indebted, bound, or obligated together), is thought to be more philologically accurate, whi... Read More about In search of community.

Community in Modern Scottish Literature (2016)
Book
Lyall, S. (Ed.). (2016). Community in Modern Scottish Literature. Brill Academic Publishers

Community in Modern Scottish Literature is the first book to examine representations and theories of community in Scottish writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries across a broad range of authors and from various conceptual perspectives. T... Read More about Community in Modern Scottish Literature.

'Hauntings of Celticism': Fionn Mac Colla and the Myth of History (2014)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2014). 'Hauntings of Celticism': Fionn Mac Colla and the Myth of History. Literature and History, 23(2), 51-66. https://doi.org/10.7227/LH.23.2.4

Fionn Mac Colla’s ideas of history can be characterised as postcolonial in their critique of historical determinism, Cartesian dualism and Whig progressivism. He utilises his theories, which encompass the psychological implications for individuals an... Read More about 'Hauntings of Celticism': Fionn Mac Colla and the Myth of History.