Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow Caroline McCracken-Flesher OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Possible Scotlands This page intentionally left blank possible scotlands                         Caroline McCracken-Flesher  Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright ©  by Oxford University Press, Inc Published by Oxford University Press, Inc  Madison Avenue, New York, New York  www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McCracken-Flesher, Caroline Possible Scotlands : Walter Scott and the story of tomorrow / Caroline McCracken-Flesher — st ed p cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN- ---- ISBN ---  Scott, Walter, Sir, –—Knowledge—Scotland  Historical fiction, Scottish—History and criticism  National characteristics, Scottish, in literature  Literature and history—Scotland  Scotland—In literature I Title PR.SM  '.—dc           Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper For    and  conditions of my possibility and for  , d  who saw all things possible in her junior colleagues This page intentionally left blank              Acknowledgments for Possible Scotlands threaten to outrun the book So I must note that my thanks here can only hint at my debt, and cannot approach the level of my gratitude My thanks to all those who have encouraged this project: the generous scholarship of Robert Crawford and Cairns Craig opened a space for my argument; Suzanne Gilbert and Douglas Mack (University of Stirling), and Murray Pittock (in  at the University of Strathclyde) invited me to give talks at their institutions; Ian Duncan, Susan Manning, and James Chandler commented upon arguments in progress; Jane Millgate, Ian Alexander, Peter Garside, Graham Tulloch, and David Hewitt helped with details; Ina Ferris, Jeff Smitten, Marilyn Orr, Penny Fielding, and Aileen Christianson lifted my spirits; students in novel and theory classes tolerated my obsessions; Elissa Morris smoothed my path at Oxford University Press Jill Rubenstein, who died in , celebrated the excitement and pushed the assumptions of my developing argument She should have lived to debate this book Many librarians and archivists also deserve my gratitude Both Iain Brown and the staff at the National Library of Scotland, and the University of Wyoming’s research and interlibrary loan librarians, proved unfailingly willing and resourceful Peter Henderson of The King’s School, Canterbury; Jane Anderson at Blair Castle; Greg Giuliano at the Rosenbach Museum; the librarians of the New York Society Library; and the National Archives of Scotland (formerly Scottish Record Office) helped fill in many gaps Generous administrators have speeded research by sharing their funds At the University of Wyoming, I thank Dean Oliver Walter and the College of Arts and Sciences, the Alumni Association and Vice President Bill Gern and his Research Office I also thank the American Council of Learned Societies Thanks, too, to colleagues and friends at the University of Wyoming Mark Booth, Janice Harris, Ric Reverand, and Paul Flesher read drafts of   the manuscript Susan Aronstein, Christine Stebbins, and Susan Frye have shared their optimism and good humor And continued thanks to Fiona, Pete, Peter, and Andrea Ritchie, Don McCracken, Val, Ollie, and Aileen Ludlow Then Paul and Conor, the conditions of my possibility  National Archives of Scotland, formerly The Scottish Record Office The Trustees of the National Library of Scotland The Collections at Blair Castle, Perthshire Caroline McCracken-Flesher, “The Recuperation of Canon Fodder: Walter Scott’s The Talisman,” in Michael Thomas Carroll, ed., No Small World: Visions and Revisions of World Literature (Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, ) Copyright ©  by the National Council of Teachers of English Reprinted with permission   Lukács, Georg The Historical Novel New York: Humanities Press,  Malley, Shawn “Walter Scott’s Romantic Archaeology: New/Old Abbotsford and The Antiquary.” Studies in Romanticism , no  (Summer ): – Manning, Susan Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing Basingstoke: Palgrave,  Mason, Roger, & Norman Macdougall, eds People and Power in Scotland: Essays in Honour of T C Smout Edinburgh: John Donald,  Mayhead, Robin “The Problem of Coherence in The Antiquary.” In Scott Bicentenary Essays: Selected Papers Read at the Sir Walter Scott Bicentenary Conference, ed Alan Bell, – New York: Harper & Row,  MacArthur, Colin “Breaking the Signs: ‘Scotch Myths’ as Cultural Struggle.” Cencrastus  (Winter –): – McCracken-Flesher, Caroline “English Hegemony/Scottish Subjectivity: Calvinism and Cultural Resistance in the Nineteenth-Century ‘North British’ Novel.” Ph.D diss., Brown University,  ——— “Thinking Nationally/Writing Colonially? 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Satanic Verses, 113 Blackwood, Archibald, 44, 56 Blackwood’s Magazine on banking crisis, 152–153 on Chronicles of the Canongate, 161–162 on King’s visit, 73, 77–78, 80, 81–82, 83 Blair, Tony, 4, 112, 166 Boulton, Matthew, 37 Bourdieu, Pierre, 75, 96, 99 Britain, 33 as marketplace, 64–65, 100 and Scottish origins, 87 Scott’s criticism of, 34, 152 See also Talisman Buccleuch, Charles, 4th Duke of, 18, 19 Bürger, Gottfried, 37 See also Raspe Burns, Robert, Byron, George Gordon Lord, 18, 59, 78–79 Cadell, Robert, 27, 170–179, 182–184, 198 n 25 on Chronicles, 162–163 as valued by Scott, 169 Caledonian Mercury, 92, 98–99 Canning, George, 150, 152 Carlyle, Thomas, 33, 106, 165 Caroline of Brunswick (Princess of Wales), 76 217 218 Carpenter, Charles, 19 Celtic Society, 93, 94–95, 101–103, 106–107 Chambers, Robert, 37, 167 Charles I, 83, 134 Charles II See Woodstock Charles, Prince of Wales (Windsor), 17, 110 Charpentier, Charlotte See Scott, Charlotte Christopher North See John Wilson circulation, 20, 24, 25, 27, 42 of antiquities, 33, 38–43, 44 as constructive, 43 of cultural capital, 82 as a gamble, 69–72 of genres, 32 in gossip, 38 in Heart of Mid-Lothian, 51–53 of King George IV, 75, 76–77, 91 of King James VI and I, 66–67 in marketplace, 62–63 as necessity, 69, 71, 72–73 of novels, 26, 115 in opposition, 71–72 of people, 76 of personae, 64 of Scotlands, 30, 32, 40, 61, 145 of Scots, 68, 91 of Scott, 59, 63, 168 of tales and tellers, 44, 47 by Thomas the Rhymer, 60 in Woodstock, 127 Claim of Right for Scotland, 153 Cleishbotham, Jedi/ediah (as separate character), 15, 44–46 in Chronicles of the Canongate, 158 as plagiarized, 63, 199 n 57 in Tales of My Landlord: Fourth and Last Series, 176–179, 183 See also Tales of My Landlord, all series Conder, Josiah, 56–57 Connolly, Billy, 4, 166 index Constable, Archibald, 31, 44, 46, 127 and bankruptcy, 141, 145 and Scott’s illness, 63 Constitutional Convention, 111, 153 Cooper Judgement, 111 Covenanters See religion Crabbe, George, 78, 93 Craig, Cairns, 5, 7, 15–16, 17, 165 cultural consumption, 100, 185–186 dialogue, 28 narrative and art, 74 Craufurd, Howison of Braehead, 96 Crawford, Robert, 7, 10–11, 16 Croker, John Wilson, 30, 33, 150, 152 Curtis, Sir William, 98–99, 109–110, 112 Davis, Leith, deconstruction, 34, 35, 56, 69, 186 See also Talisman democracy, 84, 186 Derrida, Jacques, 15, 181 devolution, 111, 112, 153 See also Scottish Parliament Dewar, Donald, Diana, Princess of Wales, 110–111 différance, 34, 51, 74, 164 See also Talisman Dunbar, “Lament for the Makars,” 169 Duncan, Ian, 6, 7, 25 Dundas, Robert, 150–151 Edgeworth, Maria, 31, 146 Edinburgh Advertiser, 82, 85, 89–91 Edinburgh Magazine, 93, 95 Edinburgh Observer, 84, 95 Edinburgh Review, 144 Edinburgh Weekly Journal, 73, 75, 83, 84 Edinburgh See Scott, King’s visit Elizabeth II, 110, 112 Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, 110 index 219 ending, sense of, 55–59, 164–187 and Woodstock, 130 See also Antiquary England and history, 129 and King’s visit, 82, 100, 108, 124 as revalued by Scott, 116–117 and Scotland, 110–111, 112–113, 146 See also Peel; Talisman equivalence, 14, 15, 66 failure of, 67, 106, 166 See also circulation; Goux; valuation Erskine, William, 57 Examiner (London), 105 Glengarry, Alastair Macdonell, 64, 94–95, 101–103, 106–107 Godwin, William, 167–168 Gordon, Robert C., 34 Goslee, Nancy, 25 gothicism, 36 See also Romance Goux, Jean-Joseph, 14–15, 20, 66, 75–76, 98, 142–143 Gow family, 100 Grant family, 85, 87–88, 108 Greene, Sarah, 115–117, 118, 129 Grierson, H J C., 200 n 63 Grieve, C M See MacDiarmid Grosvernor, Earl of, 150 fairy tale, 53 Fanon, Frantz, 12, 20 Ferrier, Susan, 167–168 Ferris, Ina, 26, 46, 56 Fielding, Henry, 136 Findlater, John, 104 Fitzgerald, Maurice, 149 Forster, E M., 29 Full Account of King George the Fourth’s Visit, 84 Hall, Basil, 168 Hamilton, Duke of, 107 Hanover, 77, 78, 87, 99 Hart, Francis Russell, 46 Herald (Glasgow), Heriot, George, 67–68 See also Nigel heritage, 10, 32 See also material culture Hewitt, David, 37 highlanders dress, 102, 104, 109 at King’s visit, 80, 88, 91–93, 102, 112 as national trope, 159, 166 See also Charles (Windsor); Chronicles of the Canongate; Glengarry; Greene, Sarah; “Highland Widow”; Victoria history, 5–11, 16–17, 19–21, 24–25 as contested, 44, 56–58, 129–130 and heritage, 32, 33, 40 as persistent, 47–50 as problem of data, 35–36, 41–42, 131, 135 as romance, 115 as strategy, 30, 32, 41–43 as unpredictable, 28 Galt, John, 57, 90 gambling, 26, 68, 72–73 Garside, Peter, 18 gender, 26, 51–55 genre, 25–26, 27, 30–32, 51, 148–149 Gentleman’s Magazine, 115 George IV coronation, 64, 75, 76 and Scott, 64, 115, 166 visit to Edinburgh, 26–27, 73–110, 112–113 See also Prince Regent Gibson, James, 63 gift, 112, 181–184, 184–185 See also Derrida; Mauss Glasgow, 95 Gleig, G R., 167 220 history (continued) See also heritage; “History of Scotland”; memory; nation, outside of history; Scott, antiquarianism Hobsbaum, Philip, 130 Hogg, James, 57, 90, 108, 115 as Scott’s biographer, 165, 185 Hume, David, 34, 40 Hurst, Robinson, and Company, 141 identity formation national, 3–4, 32, 73, 111–113 at risk, 34, 40, 69, 168–169 See also Talisman India See “Surgeon’s Daughter” Indian Peter, 54 Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Scotland, 91 Ireland and banking crisis, 147, 149–150 and King’s visit, 76–77, 82, 99 Jacobitism, 6, 7, 73 as imagery, 74 at King’s visit, 79–80, 87, 89, 105, 112 in Old Mortality, 48–49, 58 Royal Company of Archers, 89 See also Royal Scottish Minstrelsy; tartanry James V, 89–90 James, VI and I, 66–68, 70–73, 83, 89–90 Jedburgh weavers, 165 Jeffrey, Francis, 59 Jordan, Frank, 156 Kilts and Philibegs!, 85–86, 99–100 Kirkton, James, 57–58 Knighton, Sir William, 94, 107 Labour Party, 4, 112 See also Blair Laidlaw, William, 168, 170, 176, 199 n 47 Lamont, Claire, 53 index land agitation, 111 Lang, Andrew, 130 Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 95 Lee, Yoon Sun, 34, 62 Limerick, Earl of, 149–150, 151 Literary Gazette, 162 Loch, James, 92, 94 Lockhart, John Gibson, 6, 27, 167 on banking crisis, 150 as cause of criticism, 33, 165 on King’s visit, 74, 85, 87, 95–96 and Scott’s last illness, 170–179, 183–184, 184–185 on Scott’s works, 31, 63 as valued by Scott, 169, 197 n 12 London Magazine, 157, 162, 182 London Weekly Review, 162 Lothian, Marquis of, 91 Macaulay, Thomas, 109 MacDiarmid, Hugh, 111 MacGregor, Evan Murray, 88, 103–104 Mackenzie, Henry, 59 Mackenzie, Mary Stewart, 88, 95 Macpherson, James, 36 Magnum Edition See Scott, New Edition Malley, Shawn, 35 Manning, Susan, 16, 34 Mary, Queen of Scots, 94 material culture, 34 Mauss, Marcel, 15 Mayhead, Robin, 34 McCrie, Thomas, 56–58 McCrone, David, 10–14, 28, 32, 76 See also heritage; nation theory McIlvanney, William, Meadowbank, Lord, 157 Melville, Lord and banking crisis, 150–151, 152 and King’s visit, 90, 94, 96, 104–105 memory, 40–42, 52 Millgate, Jane, 25, 35, 36, 56 Mitchell, James, 4, 111 index Monthly Review, 184 Morning Chronicle, 63 Morritt, J B S., 62 movement, 20, 32, 34, 50–55, 111 by Scott, 59 See also ending, sense of Muir, Edwin, 165 multiplicity of heritage, 32, 34 of Scotts, 59 of tellers and tales, 43, 44, 47–50, 51 Murray, John, 44, 56 Murray, William, 90 Musselburgh, 89 Nairn, Tom, 5, 6, 11, 165, 185–186 narrative, 11, 12 as delimiting, 39–40, 46 of recognition, 79–94, 96, 99 of return, 79–84, 109 as strategy, 71, 107–108 See also nation Narrative, A, 83 nation as narrative, 13–20, 22–23, 26–28, 74–76, 111–115 as danger, 64–66, 97–100 as dialogue, 28, 44, 46 in fragments, 39 and identity, 11, 13–14, 152 in marketplace, 64, 82, 112 as outside history, 5–6, 13–17, 28, 32, 47, 73–74, 100 as performance, 30, 32, 38, 45–55 as process, 14, 28, 42, 61, 166–167, 184–187 in time, 28, 74, 80, 164–187 See also Bhabha; Craig; identity formation; Ireland; “Malachi Malagrowther”; nationalism; nation as narrative; nation theory; Talisman; Woodstock nation theory, 12–14, 28, 185–186 See also Bhabha; Craig; Fanon; McCrone; Nairn; Said 221 New Monthly Magazine, 115 North, Christopher See John Wilson Orators, 169 Ossian, 36 otherness See “Malachi Malagrowther”; Talisman Peel, Robert, 78, 102, 104–105 perfumer, 94 Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, 110 Phillipson, N T., 28, 151 Pittock, Murray, 6, 7, 74, 165, 185 Pontefract Castle, 63, 115, 200 n 57 postcolonialism, 12, 20, 93, 166 See also Talisman Prebble, John, 73–74, 113 Prince Regent, 19, 59 See also George IV Punter, David, 34, 40, 42 Quarterly Review, 33, 56–58, 197 n 12 Ragaz, Sharon, 34–35 Raspe, Rudolf Erich, 36–38, 42 See also Bürger reader, anxious, 8–15, 27, 59, 131 Red Clydeside, 166 Reform Bill of 1832, 165 religion, 26, 47–49, 51, 56–58 Robert the Bruce, 79, 83 Robertson, Fiona, 26, 182 Rodger, Alexander, 105–106 romance, 5–11, 13, 16, 32, 115, 120 in “Harold the Dauntless,” 30–31 in “Siege of Malta,” 176 Romanticism, Rowlinson, Matthew, 141, 142, 144 Royal Company of Archers, 89 Royal Scottish Minstrelsy, 81, 84, 97 Royal Society of Edinburgh, 61–62 Said, Edward, 12, 20 222 Scotch Novel Reading See Greene, Sarah Scotsman, 101, 107, 108, 144, 148, 152 Scott, Anne (Rutherford), 19 Scott, Charles, 154, 172 Scott, Charlotte, death, 27, 154 as Charlotte Charpentier, 37 Scott, Major Walter, 146, 199 n 47 Scott, Michael, 10, 25 Scott, Paul Henderson, Scott, Tom, 59 Scott, Walter (nephew), 62 Scott, Walter Abbotsford, 33, 59–60, 165 antiquary, 33, 128 Author of Waverley, 8–10, 11–12, 15 under bankruptcy 142, 146 in Betrothed, 114–115 change from, 44, 46 death of, 164–187 as gap, 19, 24–25, 59–60, 166, 182 identified as, 59, 156–157, 169 imposters, 59, 63, 115, 168 at King’s visit 97 in Nigel, 65, 72–73 as Thomas the Rhymer, 139, 153, 180–181, 187 bankruptcy, 27, 154–155, 182 See also Chronicles of the Canongate; “Malachi Malagrowther” Barham, 167, 173, 183, 200 n 60 baronet, 95, 192 n Baron of Exchequer, 154 critic, 31, 46, 65–66, 106–107 See also “Review of Tales of My Landlord”; Woodstock Cervantes, 176–179, 183 copyrights, 62, 175 death of, 164–187 duel, 63 Faculty of Advocates, 93 Great Unknown, 74, 106, 116, 156–158 index illness, 63, 164–187, 197 n 10 Jacobite, 185 King’s visit, 73–113, 118, 123, 137 literary authority, 27, 65 New Edition, 127, 172–173, 175, 179, 181, 182, 184 poet laureate, 19 post-coach, 95 quaker family history, 58 re-marriage, 154 steam ships, 95 Tory, 63, 165, 185 William Scott, 169 Wizard of the North, 74, 95, 150, 183 Scott, Walter, writings of: Abbot, 184 Anne of Geierstein, 170, 171 Antiquary, 26, 29–30, 44 characters elsewhere, 8, 33, 35, 61, 63 and history, 31–32, 33–43 Betrothed, 114–115 “Bizarro,” 164 Black Dwarf, 29, 44–46, 55 Bride of Lammermoor, 61, 62, 63, 64–65 “Carle, now the King’s come!,” 79, 105–106 Castle Dangerous, 10, 27, 171, 174, 179–184 Chronicles of the Canongate, 27, 155–163, 182 sales, 162–163, 171 “Highland Widow,” 155–156, 159 “The Surgeon’s Daughter,” 155, 156, 160–161 “Two Drovers,” 155, 156, 162, 171 Count Robert of Paris, 164, 168, 170– 177, 183, 186, 198 nn 20, 37 Fortunes of Nigel, 16, 62–73, 114, 142–143, 166 Guy Mannering, 16, 23–25, 26, 34, 43 “Harold the Dauntless,” 30–31 index Heart of Mid-Lothian, 26, 29, 46, 51–55, 58 “Hints Addressed to the Citizens of Edinburgh .” 79, 96, 101 “History of Scotland,” 30–32 Ivanhoe, 4, 7, 31, 61–63 Readership, 197 n See also Tony Blair Lady of the Lake, 18, 19 Lay of the Last Minstrel, 9–10, 24–25, 28 Legend of Montrose, 62, 116 “Lenore,” 169 letter to Edinburgh Weekly Journal, 75 Life of Napoleon, 8, 155 “Malachi Malagrowther,” 27, 141–154 unpublished letter, 164, 196 n.1 Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Monastery, 199 n 57 Paul’s Letters to His Kinsfolk, 59 Private Letters of the Seventeenth Century, 62, 63, 198 n.38 Quentin Durward, 115, 130 “Review of Tales of My Landlord,” First Series, 56–58 Rob Roy, the play, 62, 91 “Siege of Malta,” 164, 172, 176, 196 n Tale of Old Mortality, 26, 29–30, 46–50, 51, 55–58 critics on Old Mortality, 56–58 Old Mortality as separate character, 33, 178 Tales of a Grandfather, 31 Tales of My Landlord, First Series, 30, 32, 43–44, 47, 59 Peter Pattieson elsewhere, 15, 57 See also Black Dwarf; Peter Pattieson; Tale of Old Mortality Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, 30, 32, 47 223 See also Heart of Mid-Lothian Tales of My Landlord, Fourth and Last Series, 164, 168, 170–183, 196 n See also Castle Dangerous; Count Robert of Paris Tales of the Crusaders, 8, 171 Talisman, 27, 115, 117, 118–127, 139 prophets in, 139–140 readership, 197 n.6 Trial of Duncan Terig, 169 Waverley, 5, 8, 15, 16–26, 166 and authorship, 156 Bradwardine, elsewhere, 33, 74, 96–97 at King’s visit, 109 telling, 43, 166 Woodstock, 27, 127–138, 139 Doctor Rochecliffe, 140–141 in market, 145, 154 Scottish Assembly, Campaign for, 153 Scottish banks See “Malachi Malagrowther” Scottish Motor Traction Company, 165, 167 Scottish nationalism, 4–6, 111–112 Scottish Parliament, 3, 15, 111, 187 building, Scottish Regalia, 92, 93, 94 Scottish tongue, 116–117 Shakespeare, William, 135–136, 137, 186 Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, 57–58 Simpson, James, 83, 103, 106, 108 simultaneity, 17, 28, 186 See also Craig Sinclair, Sir John, 37, 154 Smollett, Tobias, 118 Stein, Richard L., 33, 55, 59 Sterne, Lawrence, 131, 157, 195 n 11 Stuart line, 87, 137, 166 Stuart of Garth, David, 93, 102 224 Stuart, Charles Edward, 21, 74 Stuart, James of Dunearn, 63, 74 Stuart, Lady Louisa, 31, 55, 62 Sutherland, Countess of and Marchioness of Stafford, 92, 93, 94 Sutherland, John, 21, 176 tales and tellers, 44 as contestatory, 45–6, 47–49, 56–58, 101 as delimited, 47, 51, 52 See also ending, sense of as multiple, 47, 51 tartanry, 28, 101–102, 103–104 Scottish dislike of, 6, 74, 87, 185 See also Scott, King’s visit Tassie, James, 37 Taylor, William, 169 telling, 22–26, 28, 29, 44, 59 and deconstruction, 29, 34, 35–39 as occulted, 34, 61, 139–141 as truth, 34, 35, 40–42, 52–53 as productive, 43, 45–46 See also Woodstock Terence MacRosty [pseud.], 144, 148, 152 Terry, Daniel, 74 Theatre-Royal, 62, 90–91 Theatrical Fund dinner, 156–157, 164, 182 Thomas the Rhymer, 9–10, 25, 60–61, 180–181 See also Scott, Author of Waverley Tories, 63, 87, 101, 107 See also Blackwood’s; “Malachi Malagrowther”; Melville; Scott, Tory Tough, George, 94 tourism, 18, 108, 110–111 See also George IV; Sir William Curtis True Highlanders, Society of, 102 Trumpener, Katie, index Tulloch, Graham, 183 Turnbull, Ronald See Craig Beveridge Tytler family, 36 Union of Parliaments, 3, 142 University of Cambridge, 62 University of Edinburgh, 62 University of Oxford, 62 valuation, 14–15, 18–23, 26–27, 68–70, 118, 158 See also Talisman cultural capital, 75, 82, 93, 96–97, 99, 113, 114 by data, 36 and manufacture, 65, 114, 158 through marketplace, 62, 69, 100, 115–117, 123–124, 171–173 See also “Malachi Malagrowther” of monarchy, 66–67, 75–78, 109–110 See also Scott, King’s visit through monarchy, 66–67, 72, 76, 91–92, 93, 96–100 See also Scott, King’s visit through money, 72, 98–99, 114, 143 Cadell, 175 See also “Malachi Malagrowther” by opposition, 71–73 of Scott, 63, 93–97, 167–168 See also Chronicles of the Canongate through Scott, 26, 93–100, 107, 117, 163, 166–187 unstable, 39, 99–100, 105, 106 See also Woodstock See also Bourdieu; Derrida; Goux Victoria, Queen, 110 Walladmor, 63, 115 Watt, James, 37 Wellington, Duke of, 59 Westminster Review, 129, 130, 138 index Westminster Parliament See “Malachi Malagrowther” Whigs, 87–88, 101, 107, 165 See also Duke of Hamilton; Scotsman White, Hayden, 20 Whitmore, Daniel, 48–49 225 Wilkie, David, 94, 98 William IV, 167 Wilson, John, 62, 103 Wilt, Judith, 53, 125 Wizard of the North See Scott Wordsworth, William, 30, 38 ... novels to understand some of the complexities that motivate Scottish identity Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow investigates how the author stands central to the cultural... 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