Studies in Scottish Literature | Vol 45 | Iss 1

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Front Matter

Preface to SSL 45.1
Patrick Scott and Tony Jarrells

Articles

Philosophical Vagabonds: Pedestrianism, Politics, and Improvement on the Scottish Tour
Nigel Leask

Border Police: Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, the Law, and the 1790s
Penny Fielding

W.S. Graham: ‘Born in a diamond screeched from a mountain pap’
Gerard Carruthers

Scenic and Textual Venice in Muriel Spark’s Territorial Rights
Tomás Monterrey

Notes/Documents

George Thomson to Robert Burns: A Newly-Identified Manuscript Letter-Fragment
Gerard Lee McKeever

‘The hope that someone might present them with a Kilmarnock Burns’: the National Library of Scotland’s First Kilmarnock
Robert Betteridge

A New Janet Hamilton Manuscript
Robert MacLean and Gerard Carruthers

Book Reviews

Douglas’s Palyce of Honour Re-edited
P. J. Klemp

A ‘Scoto-British-European’ Rediscovered: the Life and Writings of George Lauder
Kelsey Jackson Williams

Scotland and the Geometric Imagination
Mike Hill

A Correction to SSL 42.2 (2016)
Patrick Scott

Back Matter

Contributors to SSL 45.1