Article: Caroline McCracken-Flesher. Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow.(Book review)

Caroline McCracken-Flesher. Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 240. $60.00 cloth.

Nineteenth century studies have long been interested in the Irish dynamic within the construction of "Britishness," but the last two decades have also seen a significant new interest in the Scottish one. Ireland was certainly a tradition, an idea, a song, a people, but Scotland, as cultural critic Tom Nairns points out, had been these--and also a nation-state--for far too long to cease being one in 1707 just because its king had assimilated to England and its representatives agreed to union (After Britain [2000], ...

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