Juliet Shields is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Washington.

'… ambitious and readable … It offers a salutary reminder of the importance of the philosophy of feeling to histories other than philosophy's, and feeling's, own - not least, to the conceptual forms of national history.' Miranda Burgess, Studies in Romanticism

• Introduction. The sentiments and politics of Union; 1. The Ossian controversy and the racial beginnings of Britain; 2. British masculinity and Scottish self-control; 3. Sentimental correspondences and the boundaries of British identity; 4. National tales and domestication of the Scottish Highlands; 5. Rebellions and re-unions in the historical novel.

Juliet Shields is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Washington.

'… ambitious and readable … It offers a salutary reminder of the importance of the philosophy of feeling to histories other than philosophy's, and feeling's, own - not least, to the conceptual forms of national history.' Miranda Burgess, Studies in Romanticism

• Introduction. The sentiments and politics of Union; 1. The Ossian controversy and the racial beginnings of Britain; 2. British masculinity and Scottish self-control; 3. Sentimental correspondences and the boundaries of British identity; 4. National tales and domestication of the Scottish Highlands; 5. Rebellions and re-unions in the historical novel.

Juliet Shields is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Washington.

'… ambitious and readable … It offers a salutary reminder of the importance of the philosophy of feeling to histories other than philosophy's, and feeling's, own - not least, to the conceptual forms of national history.' Miranda Burgess, Studies in Romanticism

• Introduction. The sentiments and politics of Union; 1. The Ossian controversy and the racial beginnings of Britain; 2. British masculinity and Scottish self-control; 3. Sentimental correspondences and the boundaries of British identity; 4. National tales and domestication of the Scottish Highlands; 5. Rebellions and re-unions in the historical novel.