Sixteenth-century Scottish literature suffers from the superimposition of a European periodization that sorts ill with its historical circumstances, and from the centripetal force of Tudor culture. It is often reduced to a marginal phenomenon, drawing its force solely from receptivity and imitation. Yet, through its exploration of continental models and its development of forms that had long exhausted their vitality elsewhere, Scotland transformed this marginal space into a locus of discussion, and proposed an alternative model of literary development, based on coterie literature, cooperation and exchange, as shown by the literary trajectory of James VI/I.
On the Margins: Early Modern Scottish Writing
Petrina
2025
Abstract
Sixteenth-century Scottish literature suffers from the superimposition of a European periodization that sorts ill with its historical circumstances, and from the centripetal force of Tudor culture. It is often reduced to a marginal phenomenon, drawing its force solely from receptivity and imitation. Yet, through its exploration of continental models and its development of forms that had long exhausted their vitality elsewhere, Scotland transformed this marginal space into a locus of discussion, and proposed an alternative model of literary development, based on coterie literature, cooperation and exchange, as shown by the literary trajectory of James VI/I.
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