Rivka Swenson is associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

This ambitious book offers an alert and lively examination, not of Anglo-Scottish writing as a whole, but of the idea and representation of unionism in a series of specific authors or case-studies.... Even those who disagree with its larger claims about narrative, or with its particular interpretations, will find this a book stuffed with good and provocative quotes and ideas.

• Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Essential Scottishness and the Form of Original Anglo-Scottish Discontent One: Writing Anglo-Scottish Unionism and its Discontents in 1603 and 1707: Francis Bacon, Daniel Defoe, and English Anxieties of Narration Two: Writing Reunion, Rewriting Union for the Atomic Scot: Tobias Smollett’s Traveling Types after the ’45 and Seven Years WarThree: Writing Revolution as Essential Recovery: Samuel Johnson’s Return to Scotland after Ossian Part II: Unionism and the Challenge of the Individual in Early Nineteenth-Century Scottish Writing Four: Individual Concerns, the Mock-Gothic, and Marriage Trouble: Anglo-Scottish Self-Difference in Susan Ferrier’s Laboratory Five: Describing the Subnational Hinge in 1822: Robert Mudie and the Aesthetic Politics of the Synthetic British Text Coda: Walter Scott and the Legacy of Chosen Scottishness BibliographyIndex About the Author

Rivka Swenson is associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

This ambitious book offers an alert and lively examination, not of Anglo-Scottish writing as a whole, but of the idea and representation of unionism in a series of specific authors or case-studies.... Even those who disagree with its larger claims about narrative, or with its particular interpretations, will find this a book stuffed with good and provocative quotes and ideas.

• Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Essential Scottishness and the Form of Original Anglo-Scottish Discontent One: Writing Anglo-Scottish Unionism and its Discontents in 1603 and 1707: Francis Bacon, Daniel Defoe, and English Anxieties of Narration Two: Writing Reunion, Rewriting Union for the Atomic Scot: Tobias Smollett’s Traveling Types after the ’45 and Seven Years WarThree: Writing Revolution as Essential Recovery: Samuel Johnson’s Return to Scotland after Ossian Part II: Unionism and the Challenge of the Individual in Early Nineteenth-Century Scottish Writing Four: Individual Concerns, the Mock-Gothic, and Marriage Trouble: Anglo-Scottish Self-Difference in Susan Ferrier’s Laboratory Five: Describing the Subnational Hinge in 1822: Robert Mudie and the Aesthetic Politics of the Synthetic British Text Coda: Walter Scott and the Legacy of Chosen Scottishness BibliographyIndex About the Author

Rivka Swenson is associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

This ambitious book offers an alert and lively examination, not of Anglo-Scottish writing as a whole, but of the idea and representation of unionism in a series of specific authors or case-studies.... Even those who disagree with its larger claims about narrative, or with its particular interpretations, will find this a book stuffed with good and provocative quotes and ideas.

• Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Essential Scottishness and the Form of Original Anglo-Scottish Discontent One: Writing Anglo-Scottish Unionism and its Discontents in 1603 and 1707: Francis Bacon, Daniel Defoe, and English Anxieties of Narration Two: Writing Reunion, Rewriting Union for the Atomic Scot: Tobias Smollett’s Traveling Types after the ’45 and Seven Years WarThree: Writing Revolution as Essential Recovery: Samuel Johnson’s Return to Scotland after Ossian Part II: Unionism and the Challenge of the Individual in Early Nineteenth-Century Scottish Writing Four: Individual Concerns, the Mock-Gothic, and Marriage Trouble: Anglo-Scottish Self-Difference in Susan Ferrier’s Laboratory Five: Describing the Subnational Hinge in 1822: Robert Mudie and the Aesthetic Politics of the Synthetic British Text Coda: Walter Scott and the Legacy of Chosen Scottishness BibliographyIndex About the Author