An innovative reading of a wide range of contemporary Scottish novels in relation to literary tradition and modern philosophy, Contemporary Scottish Gothic provides a new approach to Scottish fiction and Gothic literature, and offers a fuller picture of contemporary Scottish Gothic than any previous text.

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Timothy C. Baker is Lecturer in Scottish Literature at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community (2009), and has published extensively on Scottish and American literature.

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Acknowledgements Introduction: Borderlines: Contemporary Scottish Gothic 1. A Scott-Haunted World 2. Authentic Inauthenticity: The Found Manuscript 3. Fantastic Islands 4. Metamorphosis: Humans and Animals 5. Northern Communities Notes Bibliography