David Daiches: a celebration of his life and work

Introduction: The Biography / William Baker

Introduction: A Personal Reflection / Michael Lister

Pt. I. Essays

From Two Worlds to God and the Poets: David Daiches' Role as Critical Mediator / Martin Bidney

David Daiches and the Idea of a New University / Asa Briggs

Was Too: Time Passed With David Daiches / Janet Burroway

Longer Days / Jenni Calder

Bridge Building / Jenni Calder

God and the Little Poets: On David Daiches and Muriel Spark / Owen Dudley Edwards

David Daiches and John Milton / Alastair Fowler

Repaying a Debt: David Daiches and Scottish Literature / Douglas Gifford

David Daiches on Scottish Literature / Andrew Hook

Scottish Literature at the Crossroads: An Encouraging Voice / R. D. S. Jack

'One City' of Fragments: Robert Louis Stevenson's Second (Person) City Through David Daiches' Personal Eye / Caroline McCracken-Flesher

Destinations of Choice: Stevenson at Vailima, Hardy at Max Gate / Michael Millgate

Daiches and the Modern / Ira B. Nadel

David Daiches' The Novel and the Modern World (1939) and the Reclamation of Joseph Conrad's Literary Reputation / John G. Peters

Allusive Hume: With Specific Reference to John Milton and Matthew Prior / John Valdimir Price

David Daiches: The Family Background / David Daiches Raphael

Co-Ordinate Points: A Portrait of David Daiches / Alan Riach

David Daiches: A Founding Dean of the University of Sussex / Angus Ross

Le Bon David: A Tribute to a Unique Scholar, Critic, and Literary Historian / Ian Simpson Ross

Looking into 'Mezeray' / Roger Savage

David Daiches and Scotland / Paul Henderson Scott

'A Very Strange Plant': Carlyle, John Mitchel, and the Political Legacy of Swift / David R. Sorensen

Two Medieval Hebrew Devotional Poems: Convention, Evaluation, and 'Platonic' vs. 'Metaphysical' Poetry / Reuven Tsur

Separation and Synthesis: Understanding the Two Worlds of David Daiches and Jane Austen / Melora G. Vandersluis

Pt. II. Bibliography

David Daiches: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography, 1923-2006 / William Baker and Michael Lister.