Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain - Agrégation d'anglais 2027 - Bibliographie

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Bibliographie de la SAES, avec un accès direct aux documents de la BU et à ceux disponibles en ligne.

Recommended edition

STUART Douglas. Shuggie Bain. Picador ; 2020. Voir la notice 

Primary sources - Douglas Stuart

Novels (chronological order)

Short Stories (chronological order) 

  • “Found Wanting”. The New Yorker; January 6 2020
  • “The Englishman”. The New Yorker; September 7 2020
  • “A Private View”. The New Yorker; April 26 2026

Interviews

  • GROSS Terry, BENTHAM Audrey. Fresh Air, NPR; May 4th 2026. Lien vers l'interview 
  • HATTENSTONE Simon. “Douglas Stuart on Shuggie Bain and his tough start: ‘Living with an alcoholic, there wasn’t much I didn’t see’”. The Guardian; April 2nd 2022. Lien vers l'interview
  • PASSA PORTA BRUXELLES. “Douglas Stuart and Édouard Louis : On Class Change, the Power of Literature and the Awareness of Privilege”; September 30th 2021.
  • RICHARD Joël. “Douglas Stuart – Shuggie Bain". Librairie Mollat; September 1st 2021. Lien vers l'interview
  • STUART Douglas. “I don’t think working-class people can afford to write”. The Booker Prizes;  August 7th 2025.Lien vers l'interview
  • STURGEON Nicola. “Welcome Home, Shuggie Bain". Edinburgh Book Festival; March 2nd 2022.Lien vers l'interview
  • WILSON John. This Cultural Life. BBC Radio 4; December 11th 2021. Lien vers l'interview

Documentary

SANDS Linda, YENTOB Alan. Douglas Stuart: Love, Hope and Grit. BBC One; 2022.  [BBC iPlayer is only available in the UK]

Primary Sources — Other Authors

 Prose (alphabetical order)

  • GALLOWAY Janice. The Trick is to Keep Breathing [1989]. Minerva; 1991. Voir la notice
  • HUDSON Kerry. Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns. Chatto and Windus; 2019. Voir la notice
  • KELMAN James. How Late It Was, How Late. Secker & Warburg; 1994. Voir la notice
  • KELMAN James. “The Importance of Glasgow in My Work”, in Some Recent Attacks. AK Press; 1992. Voir la notice
  • OWENS Agnes. Gentlemen of the West [1984]. Polygon; 2026.Voir la notice
  • OWENS Agnes. A Working Mother [1994]. Polygon; 2026. Voir la notice
  • TROCCHI Alexander. Young Adam [1954]. Oneworld Classics; 2008. Voir la notice
  • WARNER Alan. Morvern Callar. Jonathan Cape; 1995.Voir la notice
  • WELSH Irvine. Trainspotting. Secker & Warburg; 1993.Voir la notice
  • WINTERSON Jeanette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Pandora Press; 1985.Voir la notice

Photography

  • BROWN Alison, MCDONALD Isobel. Coming into View: Eric Watt’s Photographs of Glasgow. Glasgow Museums Publishing; 2020.
  • DEPARDON Raymond. Glasgow. Seuil; 2016.
  • MCLEAN Craig. “Shuggie Bain: 10 Images That Inspired A Booker Prize Winner”, Mr Porter, April 14 2021. Lien vers l''article

Films and plays

  • HARPER Tom. Wild Rose. 2018.
  • LOACH Ken. Kes. 1969.Voir la notice
  • LOACH Ken. My name is Joe. 1998.
  • MAC KINNON Gillies. Small Faces. 1995.
  • MACKENZIE David. Young Adam. 2002.
  • MULLAN Peter. Neds. 2010.
  • RAMSAY Lynne. Ratcatcher. 1999.
  • RICHARDSON Tony. A Taste of Honey. 1961.
  • ROPER Tony. The Steamie. 1988.

Secondary sources

Selection on ‘Shuggie Bain’

  • ANTAKYALIOGLU Zekiye. “Suffering and Trauma: Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain as a Return to Realism”. Suffering in Anglophone Literatures. Bloomsbury Publishing ; 2024, pp. 297-312. Voir la notice
  • CAROLIN Andy. “Failure as/in the Queer Bildungsroman.” Textual Practice 39 (10) ; 2025, pp.1633–51. Lien vers l'article
  • CLASS Monika. “Traces of the Queer Child in Shuggie Bain”. English Studies, vol. 104, nᵒ4, mai 2023, pp. 649-666. Lien vers l'article
  • DAMER Seán. “The Ties That Bind”. Scottish Affairs, vol. 30, nᵒ 4, November 2021, pp. 537‑543. Lien vers l'article
  • DAMER Seán. “Young Love". Scottish Affairs, vol. 32, no 1, February 2023, pp. 130‑33. Lien vers l'article
  • INDU P., et al. “Trauma, as A Motif in Douglas Stuart's Novel, Shuggie Bain: the Study of Shuggie Bain in the Light of Trauma Theory". International Journal of Health Sciences, no. III, 4 June 2022, pp. 8958-8965. Lien vers l'article
  • LEE Simon. “ Struggle as Class Motif: ‘Difficulty’ in Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain”. In CLARK Ben. The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature. Routledge, 2025, pp. 84-97. Lien vers la notice
  • MANSWORTH Megan. “‘The wine tasted nothing like sunshine’: the unreliable future textual possible worlds of alcohol addiction in Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain”. Journal of Literary Semantics, Vol. 55, N°2, 2026, pp. 99-116. Lien vers l'article
  • MORACE Robert. “Historicizing Shuggie Bain’s Reception”. The Bottle Imp: Supplement 8B, “Diverse Scotlands”, 2022. Lien vers l'article
  • MOSS Sarah. “Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart – a rare and gritty debut”. The Guardian, July 31 2020. Lien vers l'article
  • WALTON James. “A Good Year Once.” The New York Review of Books, 20 August 2020. Queer Literature

Queer Literature

  • BUTLER Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge; 1990. Lien vers la notice
  • DYER Hannah. The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood: Asymmetries of Innocence and the Cultural Politics of Child Development. Rutgers University Press; 2020. Lien vers la notice
  • STOCKTON Kathryn Bond. Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer”. Duke University Press; 2006. Voir la notice
  • STOCKTON Kathryn Bond. The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century. Duke University Press;  Combined Academic; 2009. Voir la notice 

Scottish literature

  • FERREBE Alice. “Between Camps: Masculinity, Race and Nation in Post-devolution Scotland”, in SCHOENE Berthold, ed. The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature. Edinburgh University Press;2007, pp. 275-282. Voir la notice
  • McILVANNEY Liam. “The Glasgow Novel”, in CARRUTHERS Gerard, McILVANNEY Liam, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature. Cambridge University Press; 2012, pp. 217-232. Voir la notice
  • RIACH Alan. Scottish Literature: an Introduction. Lutah Press; 2022. Voir la notice
  • PITTIN-HEDON Marie-Odile. The Space of Fiction: Voices from Scotland in the Post Devolution Age. Scottish Literature International; 2015. Voir la notice
  • WINNING Joanne. “Crossing the Borderline: Post-devolution Scottish Lesbian and Gay Writing”, in SCHOENE Berthold, ed. The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature. Edinburgh University Press; 2007, pp. 283-291.  Voir la notice

Working-class literature and precarity

  • DE BOEVER Arne. Narrative Care, Biopolitics and the Novel. Bloomsbury Academic; 2013. Voir la notice
  • HOGG Emily J., SIMONSEN Peter (eds). Precarity in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Bloomsbury Academic; 2021. Voir la notice
  • KORTE Barbara, REGARD Frédéric (eds). Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain. De Gruyter; 2014, especially HESTER, Helen. “Weaponizing Prurience”, pp. 205–24. Voir la notice
  • KORTE Barbara, ZIPP Georg. Poverty in Contemporary Literature. Palgrave Macmillan; 2014. Voir la notice
  • LEE Simon. “British Working- Class Literature: Paradox and Tension as Genre Motif”, in LENNON John and NILSSON Magnus (ed.). Working- Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives. Stockholm University Press; 2017, pp. 159–95.
  • LEE Simon. The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing: Kitchen Sink Aesthetics. Bloomsbury; 2023. Voir la notice
  • MARKELS Julian. “The Representation of Class in the Realist Novel”. Rethinking Marxism, vol. 11, no. 3, Sept. 1999, pp. 20–35.

Glasgow: urbanity and historical perspective

  • ABRAMS Lynn, BROWN Callum G. (ed.). A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century Scotland. Edinburgh University Press; 2010. Voir la notice
  • DAMER Sean. Glasgow: Going for a Song. Lawrence and Wishart; 1990. Voir la notice
  • DUFF Kim. Contemporary British Literature and Urban Space: After Thatcher. Palgrave Macmillan; 2014. Voir la notice
  • GRAY Neil, MOONEY Gerry. “Glasgow’s New Urban Frontier: ‘Civilising’ the Population of ‘Glasgow East’”. City 15 (1), 2011, pp. 4–24. 
  • LEYDIER Gilles. “Les années Thatcher en Écosse : l'Union remise en question”. Revue française de science politique, 44ᵉ année, n°6, 1994. pp. 1034-1053. Lien vers l'article
  • LAPLACE Philippe, TABUTEAU Eric. Cities on the Margin; on the Margin of Cities. Presses Universitaires Franc-Comtoises; 2003.  Voir la notice
  • NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND. “A Social History of Glasgow”: The Tenement House, (last access: October  13th, 2026). Lien vers l'article
  • TORRANCE David.  “We in Scotland”: Thatcherism in a Cold Climate. Birlinn; 2009.

 Linguistic perspective on Scotland and the Scots language

  • BERTON Jean. « La relation linguistique en Écosse: multilinguisme et scotticité ». E-rea, vol. 19.2, 12 juin 2022. Lien vers l'article
  • LABOV William. “The Reflection of Social Processes in Linguistic Structure” in FISHMAN Joshua A. (ed). Readings in the sociology of language. Mouton; 1972. Voir la notice
  • LAWSON Robert. “Introduction: An Overview of Language in Scotland ». Sociolinguistics in Scotland. Palgrave Macmillan; 2014. Voir la notice
  • MACAFEE Caroline. Glasgow, (Varieties of English around the world; 3). Benjamins Publishing Company; 1983. Voir la notice
  • MACAULAY, Ronald K.S. Standards and variation in urban speech: Examples from Lowland Scots. J. Benjamins Publishing; 1997. Voir la notice
  •  MACAULAY Ronald K. S. Extremely Common Eloquence: Constructing Scottish Identity through Narrative. Rodopi; 2005. Voir la notice
  • SKRETKOWICZ Victor, Susan RENNIE (dir.). Dictionaries of the Scots Language. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd; 2004. Lien vers la ressource en ligne

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