The Fin-de-Siècle Scottish Revival

A ground-breaking piece of scholarship　[...]　Shaw’s book is a treasure trove of fascinating information about the concerns and international influences which animated the cultural scene in late nineteenth century Scotland. -- Graeme Purves * Bella Caledonia *
This book will undoubtedly be an important and useful resource for those researching and teaching Scottish literature and culture. Beyond Scottish Studies, it offers a new way to approach commonly taught and researched Scottish authors, and an opportunity for instructors to expand beyond these canonical figures -- Sarah Sharp, University of Aberdeen * English Studies *
This book will undoubtedly be an important and useful resource for those researching and teaching Scottish literature and culture. Beyond Scottish Studies, it offers a new way to approach commonly taught and researched Scottish authors, and an opportunity for instructors to expand beyond these canonical figures. -- Sarah Sharp, University of Aberdeen * English Studies *
In this fascinating study, Shaw provides a major re-evaluation of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Scottish literature and culture. This book should be essential reading for scholars interested in the fin-de-siècle literature and for scholars in Scottish studies more broadly. * Kirstie Blair, University of Strathclyde *
Shaw’s monograph ranges much further than Geddes and is full of insights on the complicated cultural intersections of the 1890s. But it is the figure of　Geddes, with his hugely diverse range of preoccupations and projects, his inconsistencies and conflicts, that best embodies the ambitions and challenges of Shaw’s wider study. It is unsurprising that one impetus behind this book is the late Douglas Gifford’s call to explore further relationships between fin-de-siècle Scotland and its links to the Scottish Renaissance. Shaw responds magnificently to this demand to read Scotland in the 1890s in terms of broader interrogations of modernity and civilisation across Europe. -- Glenda Norquay, Liverpool John Moores University * Scottish Literary Review *