Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow

by Caroline McCracken-Flesher

No thanks to Walter Scott, Scotland has at last regained its parliament. If this statement sounds extreme, it echoes the tone that criticism of Scott and his culture has taken through the twentieth century. Scott is supposed to have provided stories of the past that allowed his country no future--that pushed it "out of history." Scotland has become a place so absorbed in nostalgia that it could not construct a politics for a changing world.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195169670
• ISBN13: 9780195169676
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"