Introduction / Ian Brown and Alan Riach -- Arcades : the turning of the nineteenth century / Cairns Craig -- Scotland, empire and apocalypse from Stevenson to Buchan / Murray Pittock -- Literature and World War One / Trevor Royle -- Arcades : the 1920s and 1930s / Alan Riach -- Twentieth-century Scottish drama / Donald Smith and Ksenija Horvat -- The modern Scottish literary renaissance / Roderick Watson -- Scottish literature and World War Two / Douglas Gifford -- Arcades : the 1940s and 1950s / Moira Burgess -- The poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid and W.S. Graham / John Corbett -- Post-war Scottish fiction : Mac Colla, Linklater, Jenkins, Spark and Kennaway / Bernard Sellin -- Arcades : the 1960s and 1970s / Ian Brown and Colin Nicholson -- The (b)order in modern Scottish Literature / Carla Sassi -- The seven poets generation / Robyn Marsack -- Language and identity in modern Gaelic verse / Michelle Macleod -- Arcades : the 1980s and 1990s / Michael Gardiner -- Scottish contemporary popular and genre fiction / Marie Odile Pittin-Hédon -- Poetry in the age of Morgan / Alan Riach -- Entering the twenty-first century / Ian Brown.