Border crossings : narration, nation and imagination in Scots and Irish literature and culture /
Younger, Colin,editor of compilation.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Colin Younger -- part 1. Borderlines. Mist across Celtic waters / Mike Adamson -- Exile and suffering in the construction of identity: narratives of banishment, exile and return in 17th and 18th century Britain and Ireland / Peter Rushton -- Voices from the prairie: immigrant identities in opposition / Nick Serra -- "Man mai ther-of et inogh": agricultural crisis and BL MS Harley 913 / Michael W. George -- part 2. Borderlands. In praise of uncertainty: the liminal authenticity of the border ballads / Colin Younger -- Borders: Lord Ernest Hamilton (1858-1939), race, religion and Ulster-Scots identity in the last decades of the Anglo-Irish Union / Patrick Maume -- The fantasy of the Celtic revival: Lord Dunsany, Fiona Macleod and W.B. Yeats / Tania Scott -- Martin McDonagh's Celtic  tiger feet: trading on the twisted legacies of Irish drama / Willy Maley -- part. 3. Border crossings. The 'roaring Irishman': William Maginn, Ireland and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine / Alison O'Malley Younger and John Strachan -- Morbid anatomy: De'crypt'ing the monstrous: Burke and Hare / Alison O'Malley Younger -- Two sides of the same dark coin: gothic cityscapes and masculinities in William Mcilvanney's Laidlaw and Eoin Mcnamee's Resurrection Man / Martyn Colebrook -- When Scottish eyes are Irishised / Mark Corcoran -- "The place you don't belong": border-crossings and ambivalence in the Northern Irish noir-thriller / Thomas Rudman -- Learning to Thole: the unconscious connections between Ireland and Scotland in the thought of Seamus Heaney / Euegene O'Brien.
English literature
Boundaries in literature.