Description: The Companion provides a thorough, up-to-date and critical evaluation of Welsh's work.
Brief description: Berthold Schoene is Professor of English and Director of the English Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature (EUP, 2007) and author of The Cosmopolitan Novel (EUP, 2009) and Writing Men (EUP, 2000).
Review Quotes: The Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh makes a major contribution to this reassessment while implicitly confirming Welsh's standing as a major Scottish writer.--Robert Morace, Daemen College "Scottish Literary Review "