McCracken-Flesher, Caroline. Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow.(Book review)

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MCCRACKEN-FLESHER, CAROLINE. Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). 225pp. $60.00.

This is a dense and challenging book that tackles a dense and challenging theme-and clearly and repeatedly articulates its thesis that "Scotland is haunted by the corpus of Walter Scott"--a corpus traced from the appearance of Waverley--or indeed before--to the last difficult months when Scott was struggling to produce publishable (and remunerative) work, and his publishers and literary advisers were considering how far the ...

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