What makes McCulloch's book most valuable for Modernists... is not a new theory of Modernism but an astute analysis of the ways Scottish Modernists developed distinct, if parallel, techniques with culturally specific materials and sources. She manages this massive project through sustained argument for innovation and experimental technique joined with summary, commentary and interpretation of authors whose work has been ... Read moreleft out of accounts of 'British' Modernism and often even Scottish criticism. The result is a major challenge to traditional analyses of Modernism and a significant intervention in the 'New Modernism' of the past decade. Review of English Studies What makes McCulloch's book most valuable for Modernists... is not a new theory of Modernism but an astute analysis of the ways Scottish Modernists developed distinct, if parallel, techniques with culturally specific materials and sources. She manages this massive project through sustained argument for innovation and experimental technique joined with summary, commentary and interpretation of authors whose work has been left out of accounts of 'British' Modernism and often even Scottish criticism. The result is a major challenge to traditional analyses of Modernism and a significant intervention in the 'New Modernism' of the past decade. Show Less