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Assoc for Scottish Literaturescotlit@mastodon.scot
2026-01-17

“The tartan comedy […] belies the fact that Mackenzie was deeply politicised”

Prof Alan Riach compares the lives, politics, & wildly varied & prolific careers of 2 major 20th-century Scottish writers: Compton Mackenzie & Naomi Mitchison

4/4

thenational.scot/news/17388505

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #ComptonMackenzie #politics #ScottishPolitics #NaomiMitchison

Assoc for Scottish Literaturescotlit@mastodon.scot
2026-01-17

Queer Nostalgia & Island Time in JM Barrie & Compton Mackenzie

SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 16/1 (2024)

Dr Timothy C. Baker on JM Barrie’s MARY ROSE (1920) & Compton Mackenzie’s 2 portraits of queer life on Capri: VESTAL FIRE (1927), & EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN (1928)

Free online via Project MUSE

@litstudies

3/4

muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/9

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #ComptonMackenzie #Queer #QueerLit #QueerHistory #JMBarrie

Studies of queer temporality, both in Scottish literature & more generally, have emphasised the importance of non-linear time & questions of futurity. Scottish texts of the 1920s, however, present a different view, where the rejection of compulsory heterosexuality, at the very least, is historically situated. J. M. Barrie’s Mary Rose (1920) juxtaposes multiple timelines to suggest the possibility of rejecting traditional family & gender relations, while Compton Mackenzie’s two portraits of queer life on Capri, Vestal Fire (1927) & Extraordinary Women (1928), present the international community there as located firmly in the past. Both authors specifically posit islands, real or fictional, as places of transformation & exploration. Islands not only have their own time, but a unique relation to questions of sexuality. While Barrie & Mackenzie’s texts, when discussed at all, are seen as fundamentally conservative & predominantly read in relation to the authors’ biographies, this article suggests that their overlooked status in current conversations about queer literature & history is itself productive. In both geographic & historical setting the works emphasise peripherality & non-integration. They are, following Lauren Berlant’s recent work, inconvenient texts, & texts about inconvenience. Taking such texts seriously, & emphasising the value of literature, & lives, that remain outliers, demonstrates new interpretive possibilities for the study of queer Scottish literature.
Assoc for Scottish Literaturescotlit@mastodon.scot
2026-01-17

Straight Outta Compton (Mackenzie)

Edward Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972) was born #OTD, 17 Jan. Mainly remembered today for his 1947 comedy WHISKY GALORE, he wrote more than 100 books & influenced writers such as F Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell, & Cyril Connolly

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1/4

unherd.com/2022/11/the-forgott

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #ComptonMackenzie #FScottFitzgerald #GeorgeOrwell #CyrilConnolly

Assoc for Scottish Literaturescotlit@mastodon.scot
2025-05-09

Queer Nostalgia & Island Time in JM Barrie & Compton Mackenzie

SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 16/1 (2024)

Dr Timothy C. Baker on JM Barrie’s MARY ROSE (1920) & Compton Mackenzie’s 2 portraits of queer life on Capri: VESTAL FIRE (1927), & EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN (1928)

Free online via Project MUSE

@litstudies

9/10

muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/9

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #Queer #QueerLit #QueerHistory #JMBarrie #ComptonMackenzie

Studies of queer temporality, both in Scottish literature & more generally, have emphasised the importance of non-linear time & questions of futurity. Scottish texts of the 1920s, however, present a different view, where the rejection of compulsory heterosexuality, at the very least, is historically situated. J. M. Barrie’s Mary Rose (1920) juxtaposes multiple timelines to suggest the possibility of rejecting traditional family & gender relations, while Compton Mackenzie’s two portraits of queer life on Capri, Vestal Fire (1927) & Extraordinary Women (1928), present the international community there as located firmly in the past. Both authors specifically posit islands, real or fictional, as places of transformation & exploration. Islands not only have their own time, but a unique relation to questions of sexuality. While Barrie & Mackenzie’s texts, when discussed at all, are seen as fundamentally conservative & predominantly read in relation to the authors’ biographies, this article suggests that their overlooked status in current conversations about queer literature & history is itself productive. In both geographic & historical setting the works emphasise peripherality & non-integration. They are, following Lauren Berlant’s recent work, inconvenient texts, & texts about inconvenience. Taking such texts seriously, & emphasising the value of literature, & lives, that remain outliers, demonstrates new interpretive possibilities for the study of queer Scottish literature.
Assoc for Scottish Literaturescotlit@mastodon.scot
2025-01-17

“The tartan comedy […] belies the fact that Mackenzie was deeply politicised”

Prof Alan Riach compares the lives, politics, & wildly varied & prolific careers of 2 major 20th-century Scottish writers: Compton Mackenzie & Naomi Mitchison

4/4

thenational.scot/news/17388505

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #politics #NaomiMitchison #ComptonMackenzie

Assoc for Scottish Literaturescotlit@mastodon.scot
2025-01-17

Queer Nostalgia & Island Time in JM Barrie & Compton Mackenzie

SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 16/1 (2024)

Dr Timothy C. Baker on JM Barrie’s MARY ROSE (1920) & Compton Mackenzie’s 2 portraits of queer life on Capri: VESTAL FIRE (1927), & EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN (1928)

Free online via Project MUSE

@litstudies

3/4

muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/9

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #Queer #QueerLit #QueerHistory #JMBarrie #ComptonMackenzie

Studies of queer temporality, both in Scottish literature & more generally, have emphasised the importance of non-linear time & questions of futurity. Scottish texts of the 1920s, however, present a different view, where the rejection of compulsory heterosexuality, at the very least, is historically situated. J. M. Barrie’s Mary Rose (1920) juxtaposes multiple timelines to suggest the possibility of rejecting traditional family & gender relations, while Compton Mackenzie’s two portraits of queer life on Capri, Vestal Fire (1927) & Extraordinary Women (1928), present the international community there as located firmly in the past. Both authors specifically posit islands, real or fictional, as places of transformation & exploration. Islands not only have their own time, but a unique relation to questions of sexuality. While Barrie & Mackenzie’s texts, when discussed at all, are seen as fundamentally conservative & predominantly read in relation to the authors’ biographies, this article suggests that their overlooked status in current conversations about queer literature & history is itself productive. In both geographic & historical setting the works emphasise peripherality & non-integration. They are, following Lauren Berlant’s recent work, inconvenient texts, & texts about inconvenience. Taking such texts seriously, & emphasising the value of literature, & lives, that remain outliers, demonstrates new interpretive possibilities for the study of queer Scottish literature.

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