" Modernism and Nationalism : Literature and Society in Scotland 1918-1939" is an edited collection of primary sources from the twentieth-century interwar Scottish literary renaissance, and is an important contribution to our understanding of the period.. " Modernism and Nationalism : Literature and Society in Scotland 1918-1939" is an edited collection of primary sources from the twentieth-century interwar Scottish literary renaissance, and is an important contribution to our understanding of the period.