Abstract
Suggests that attitudes to Presbyterianism and the Scottish Kirk in much 20th century Scottish literary criticism have been too negative, and explores the religious heritage and selected writings of the Orcadian poet and novelist George Mackay Brown (1921-1996), a Catholic convert, to argue that Brown's best-known novel, Greenvoe (1972), draws not only on Catholic, and older pagan, symbolism, but also on aspects of the Reformed or Calvinist tradition.
Recommended Citation
Russell, Richard Rankin
(2016)
"Recovering the Reformation Heritage in George Mackay Brown's Greenvoe,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 42:
Iss.
1, 81–97.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol42/iss1/6