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The Fiction of Robin Jenkins is the first ever volume of essays dedicated to Robin Jenkins (1912-2005), hailed by Andrew Marr as 'the best-kept secret in Modern British Literature', and by the Scotsman in 2000 as 'the greatest living fiction-writer in Scotland [...] the Scottish Thomas Hardy'. This new study of Jenkins includes essays across his entire, astonishingly varied body of work. It includes provocative new readings of a range of thematic issues by established experts on Jenkins and on Scottish Literature more broadly. This volume also includes chapters dedicated to individual novels in Jenkins's corpus, including his best-known work, The Cone-Gatherers, as well as The Changeling, Fergus Lamont, and his posthumous novel, The Pearl Fishers.
Contributors: Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir, Timothy C. Baker, Linden Bicket, Gerard Carruthers, Cairns Craig, Douglas Gifford, Michael Lamont, Margery Palmer McCulloch, Isobel Murray, Glenda Norquay, Alan Riach, David Robb, Bernard Sellin, Gavin Wallace.
Contents
Contributors
Dedication
James Robertson
The Range and Achievement of Robin Jenkins: An Introductory Overview
Gavin Wallace and Douglas Gifford
'Fresh and truthful eyes': Jenkins's Early Scottish Fiction (1950-1958)
Isobel Murray
Ironic Mythology: Reading the Fictiveness of The Cone-Gatherers
Gerard Carruthers
'To Bring Profoundest Sympathy': Jenkins and Community
Timothy C. Baker
The Art of Uncertainty: Forms of Omniscience in the Novels of Robin Jenkins
Cairns Craig
Realism, Symbolism, and Authorial Manipulation in The Changeling
Douglas Gifford
Robin Jenkins: Perspectives on the Postcolonial
Glenda Norquay
Robin Jenkins: The Short Stories
Alan Riach
'Pilgrims of Conscience' in the Fiction of Robin Jenkins
Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir
What's the Story in Fergus Lamont? Or 'Where was Fergus when Kennedy got Shot?'
Michael Lamont and Douglas Gifford
Confessions of an Unbeliever: Religion in the Novels of Robin Jenkins
Bernard Sellin
'A Kind of Truth': Innocence and Corruption in Lady Magdalen and Just Duffy
Margery Palmer McCulloch
The Past Is Not a Foreign Country: Jenkins, Scotland and History
David S. Robb
Reprise or Resolution? A Would-Be Saint and Robin Jenkins's Final Novel, The Pearl Fishers
Linden Bicket
Old Themes and Self-Reflection in Jenkins's Later Novels
Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir
Further Reading
Index
