Narratives of Spaces, Places, and People: M.C. Beaton’s Highlands and Highlanders

Abstract

The paper attempts to suggest re-reading literary texts from the perspective of the interconnections between settings and individuals in the process of forging the latter’s place-identity. This environmental concept, meant to foreground the importance of the place for the development of the sense of the self, is to be operated with in a selection of books authored by the Scottish mystery writer, M.C. Beaton.

Keywords

• emplacement
• otherness
• place-identity
• the self