Penny Fielding is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Edinburgh. Previous books include an edition of Walter Scott, The Monastery (2000), and Writing and Orality: Nationality, Culture, and Nineteenth-Century Scottish Fiction (1996).

'The book's strength lies as much in lovely, nuanced readings such as this demonstrating the continuing interest and appeal of an almost forgotten writer, as it does in the larger arguments about enlightenment historiography. Both qualities, however, make Fielding's work an important contribution to the growing field of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scottish studies.' Scottish Literary Review

• Introduction; 1. North Britain; 2. Burns, place, and language; 3. Great North Roads: the geometries of the nation; 4. Antiquarianism and the inscription of the nation; 5. Ultima Thule: the limits of the North; 6. Norths: James Hogg and post-Enlightenment space.

Penny Fielding is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Edinburgh. Previous books include an edition of Walter Scott, The Monastery (2000), and Writing and Orality: Nationality, Culture, and Nineteenth-Century Scottish Fiction (1996).

'The book's strength lies as much in lovely, nuanced readings such as this demonstrating the continuing interest and appeal of an almost forgotten writer, as it does in the larger arguments about enlightenment historiography. Both qualities, however, make Fielding's work an important contribution to the growing field of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scottish studies.' Scottish Literary Review

• Introduction; 1. North Britain; 2. Burns, place, and language; 3. Great North Roads: the geometries of the nation; 4. Antiquarianism and the inscription of the nation; 5. Ultima Thule: the limits of the North; 6. Norths: James Hogg and post-Enlightenment space.

Penny Fielding is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Edinburgh. Previous books include an edition of Walter Scott, The Monastery (2000), and Writing and Orality: Nationality, Culture, and Nineteenth-Century Scottish Fiction (1996).

'The book's strength lies as much in lovely, nuanced readings such as this demonstrating the continuing interest and appeal of an almost forgotten writer, as it does in the larger arguments about enlightenment historiography. Both qualities, however, make Fielding's work an important contribution to the growing field of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scottish studies.' Scottish Literary Review

• Introduction; 1. North Britain; 2. Burns, place, and language; 3. Great North Roads: the geometries of the nation; 4. Antiquarianism and the inscription of the nation; 5. Ultima Thule: the limits of the North; 6. Norths: James Hogg and post-Enlightenment space.