Scott-land

His name and image are everywhere - from Bank of Scotland fivers to the bizarre monument in Edinburgh's city centre. Scott-land presumes that the reader will have only a hazy awareness of Sir Walter Scott, and, although Stuart Kelly will offer insights into Scott's works and biography, this is emphatically not a conventional literary biography, nor is it a critical study. Partly a surreptitious autobiography - Stuart Kelly was born near Abbotsford - his examination of Scott's legacy and character come to change his own thoughts on writing, reviewing, being Scottish, and being human.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Arrival
• The Man
• Scott’s Edinburgh
• Ossian
• Reputation
• Monument
• Royal Mile
• Nation
• The Borders
• Scott Country
• Minstrelsy
• Scott’s Minstrelsy
• Rhymer
• Last and Latest Minstrel
• Toponymy
• The Heights of Parnassus
• ‘Laying a Trap for Jeffrey’
• ‘Some satirical flings at Scott’
• Tourism
• Heritage
• Waverley
• ‘The Author of Waverley’
• A Digression on Secret Identities
• Putting a Country in a Book
• The Quixotic Nation
• ‘Conundrum Castle’
• Haunted House
• Ghosts
• An American in Abbotsford
• Yankee Doodles
• Where Did It All Go Wrong?
• Regalia
• Ivanhoe
• British Literature
• Common Ridings
• Shivered Timbers
• The Jaunt
• Wounds, Old and New
• ‘Spirit-stirring Spectacle’
• The Gathering
• Captain Clutterbuck
• The Eidolon
• Dr Dryasdust, and others
• Apex and Fakes
• Crash
• Bang
• Wallop
• Unmasking the Author of Waverley
• Realia
• Mr Chainmail
• The Vestiarium Scoticum
• Balmorality, Tartanry and Scotlandshire
• The Late Works
• Sir Walter Scott’s Theory of Fiction
• The Last Works
• The Second Death
• Scott’s Selkirk
• Scott’s Scott-land
• Departure
• Further Reading
• Acknowledgements
• Index