This book examines how the dramatic intellectual developments of
the Scottish Enlightenment undermined a patriotic reading of
Scotland's history, and shows how this had long-term consequences
in the failure of the nineteenth-century Scottish intelligentsia to
mount a nationalist movement comparable to the romantic
nationalisms of other European peoples. The volume sheds fresh
light on several important areas of Scottish history and
literature: on the parliamentary Union with England of 1707, the
ideological conflicts between whigs and Jacobites, and the literary
mythmaking of James Macpherson's Ossian and Sir Walter Scott's
Waverley novels. It also addresses the broader questions of the
impact of the Scottish Enlightenment on British political culture,
and the enigma of British national identity itself.
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