Intro; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction: The Proximity of Scotland; Making a Space for Place; Edward Casey and the Philosophical Grounding of Place; Scottish Singularities; About This Volume; Works Cited; Part I Contested Beginnings; Location and Destination in Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair's 'The Birlinn of Clanranald'; Works Cited and Further Reading; Troubled Inheritances in R. L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Priory School"; Stevenson and Conan Doyle; Abduction and Inheritance

Works CitedPart II Essaying Place: Fiction and Non-fiction Prose Representations; From Dramatic Space to Narrative Place: George Mackay Brown's Time in a Red Coat; Introduction; Early Dramatic Drafts; Final Dramatic Version; The Novel; Works Cited; The Empty Places: Northern Archipelagos in Scottish Fiction; Works Cited; 'Keep Looking, Even When There's Nothing Much to See': Re-imagining Scottish Landscapes in Kathleen Jamie's Non-fiction; Works Cited; Greenock-Outer Space: Place and Space in Ken MacLeod's The Human Front and Descent; Introduction: The Spatial (Transmodern) Turn in Literature

Science Fiction: Transcending the Euclidean-Space Perspective into a New Space Paradigm?Ken MacLeod's Writing and Its Sense of Place; The Human Front and Descent: An Analysis of Place in the Transmodern Space-Time Continuum; Conclusions; Works Cited; Part III Figuring Land, Figuring Self: Poetics; "The Wider Rootedness": John Burnside's Embodied Sense of Place; Works Cited; "Under the Saltire Flag": Kei Miller's Spatial Negotiations of Identity; 2; 3; 4; 5; Works Cited; A World of Islands: Archipelagic Poetics in Modern Scottish Literature

Arriving at the Archipelago: Hugh MacDiarmid's The Islands of ScotlandIsland Constellations: 'Planetary Consciousness' in Contemporary Scottish Literature; Coda: Coastal Connections; Bibliography; From "Pictish Artemis" to "Tay Moses": Visions of the River Tay in Some Contemporary Scottish Poems; The River Tay; "Here and There"; "Memory and Imagination"; "Mary Shelley on Broughty Ferry Beach"; Tay Sonnets: "Excavation and Recovery" and "Doing Away"; "The Tay Moses"; Conclusion; Works Cited

Derick Thomson's An Rathad Cian (The Far Road, 1970): Modern Gaelic Poetry of Place Between Introspection and PoliticsWorks Cited; Glaswegian and Dundonian: Twa Mither Tongues Representing the Place and Space of Tom Leonard and Mark Thomson; Works Cited; Take the Weather with You: Robin Robertson's North-East Coast Atmospherics of Landscape and Self; I; II; III; IV; Works Cited; Part IV Afterword: From Word to Image; Jon Schueler (1916-1992): Intensity and Identity; Introduction; Dynamics of Studio and Sky; The Open Sea; Clouds and Their Openings; Identity and Place