This course is meant at once to introduce the literature, history, and literary history of Scotland while also providing outlines of, and opportunity for engagement with, the diverse forms that make up that literature.

Scotland occupies a unique place within the history of British art-making, at once a colony and not, a marginalized people group with a strong sense of clan (and only sometimes, national) identity that nevertheless managed to lead both religious and philosophical revolutions that shook the known world.
We owe them more than we generally think.