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Muriel Spark's oeuvre is contextualised in the tradition of Christian existentialism and its insistence on 'being towards death'.

The Wealth of the Nation' explores how Scotland has continued to assert its distinctive cultural difference despite the three-hundred-year union with England and the modern forces of globalisation.

This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from ''The Remains of the Day'' to ''White Teeth''. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question. This is an excellent guide to Iain Banks''s bestselling novel. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, a comparison of the book to the movie, and a great deal more. If you''re studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about it, you''ll find this guide informative

A major reconsideration of our understanding of the development of Scottish culture from the Enlightenment to the present day.

Provides an account of the philosophical and psychological theories in the British empiricist tradition that provoked some of the most radical changes in literary form between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries.

In the last quarter century, Scottish novelists from Muriel Spark, Alasdair Gray and Allan Massie to James Kelman, Janice Galloway, A.L. Kennedy and Irvine Welsh have achieved significant international success.