Literature and Languages
Staff Information
Dr Scott Hames
Edited Collection
Hames S. (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman (Edinburgh University Press, 2010)
Articles / Chapters
Hames S. 'Alan Warner', in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, ed. Brian Shaffer (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010)
Hames S. 'A Box of Toys: Robert Louis Stevenson and Andrew O'Hagan', Edinburgh Review 130 (Autumn 2010), pp. 132-41.
Hames S. ‘Kelman’s Art-Speech’ in The Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010), pp. 86-98.
Hames S. ‘Eyeless in Glasgow: James Kelman’s Existential Milton’, Contemporary Literature 50.3 (Autumn 2009), pp. 496-527.
Hames S. ‘Theory and Scottish Exceptionalism’ [editorial], International Journal of Scottish Literature 3 (Autumn/Winter 2007)
Hames S. ‘Don Paterson and Poetic Autonomy’, in The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature, ed. Berthold Schoene (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), pp. 245-55.
Hames S. ‘Dogged Masculinities: Male Subjectivity and Socialist Despair in Kelman and McIlvanney’, Scottish Studies Review 8.1 (Spring 2007), pp. 67-87.
Hames S. ‘Fightin’ Dominies and Form: Politics & Narrative in Some Modern Scottish Novels of Education’, in To the Other Shore: Crosscurrents in Irish and Scottish Studies, ed. Neal Alexander et al (Cló Ollscoil na Banríona, Belfast, 2004), pp. 56-68.
Forthcoming
Hames S. ‘Realism and Romance’, in Approaches to Teaching Robert Louis Stevenson, ed. Caroline McCracken-Flesher (New York: Modern Language Association, 2011)
Hames S. Contributor and section reviewer [Literary Theory], Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Speech and Language, ed. John Laver (Oxford: Blackwell, 2011)
Work in Progress
Hames S. James Kelman and the Literary Vernacular (New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi)
Hames S. 'The New Scottish Renaissance', in The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Vol. VII: British and Irish Fiction since 1940, eds. Peter Boxall and Brian Cheyette (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
Hames S. 'Diasporic Narcissism: Sublimating Scotland in Alistair MacLeod and Alice Munro' for Anglistik 23.2 (2012)
Hames S. ‘Robert Louis Stevenson and Old/New Aestheticism’
Hames S. ‘Making it Real: Towards a Theory of Vernacular Textuality’