Iseabail's list of resources about Scots language in literature

Association for Scottish Literary Studies. Deals with literature and language in English, Scots and Gaelic.  http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS

Buchan, David (1981) Scottish Tradition: a Collection of Scottish Folk Literature, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Corbett, John (1997) Language and Scottish Literature, Edinburgh University Press,  Explains how linguistic theories can be used to examine Scottish literature.

Donaldson, William (1986) Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland. Language, Fiction and the Press, Aberdeen University Press.

The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature (2006) 3 vols, eds Ian Brown, Thomas Owen Clancy, Susan Manning, Murray Pittock. Vol 1 From Columba to the Union (until 1707); Vol 2  Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707-1918); Vol 3 Modern Transformations: New Identities (from 1918), Edinburgh University Press.

Gifford, Douglas, Dunnigan, Sarah and MacGillivray, Alan eds (2002) Scottish Literature, Edinburgh University Press.

The History of Scottish Literature 4 vols, general ed Cairns Craig, Edinburgh; Mercat Press.  Vol 1 (1988) Origins to 1660 ed R D S Jack; Vol 2 (1987) 1660-1800 ed Andrew Hook; Vol 3 (1988) Nineteenth Century ed Douglas Gifford; Vol 4 (1987) Twentieth  Century ed Cairns Craig.

Letley, Emma (1988) From Galt to Douglas Brown. Nineteenth Century Fiction and Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press.

McClure, J. Derrick (1995) Scots and its Literature, Amsterdam: Benjamins. A collection of previously published work, some revised.

McClure, J. Derrick (2000) Language, Poetry and Nationhood. Scots as a Poetic Language, East Linton: Tuckwell Press.

MacGillivray, Alan (1997) Teaching Scottish Literature, Edinburgh University Press.

Milton, Colin (1992) 'Language, class and education in twentieth-century Scottish writing', English World-Wide 13:2, 219-251.

Stevenson, Randall (1993) 'Re-enter Houghmagandie: language as performance in Liz Lochhead's Tartuffe' in Robert Crawford and Anne Varty eds. Liz Lochhead's Voices, Edinburgh University Press, 109-123.