"A commendably brave, interventionist book."--Gerard Carruthers, Scotia"An excellent study."--Alison Lumsden, Studies in Hogg and His World"In Possible Scotlands, Caroline McCraken-Flesher puts a bold new post-devolution spin on the literary and cultural relationship of national ideas, and offers a strong defense, both national and densely theoretical, of the figure who most troubles this relationship, Walter Scott."--Judith Wilt, Studies in Romanticism"McCracken-Flesher opposes any unified or developmental view of Scott's career, attending instead to the ways in which each novel reconsiders the challenge of narrating a nation so as to continually undo any static view of the nation and its history. She reads Scott as a lively and thoroughly contemporary author (with a number of examples of his recent currency in official and unofficial culture).--SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900)"Possible Scotlands represents a novel and, in some ways, overdue treatment of Scott through the lends of postcolonial and poststructuralist theories whose currency reflect McCracken-Flesher's treatment of Scott as continuously current in discourses on culture and nation in Scotland."-Andrea Cabajsky, Université de Moncton"McCracken-Flescher's intriguing new Scott spills out of the Waverley novels into the contexts of Scottish media and political spectacle. Admirably researched.

" -- The Cambridge Quarterly"A commendably brave, interventionist book."--Gerard Carruthers, Scotia"McCracken-Flesher opposes any unified or developmental view of Scott's career, attending instead to the ways in which each novel reconsiders the challenge of narrating a nation so as to continually undo any static view of the nation and its history. She reads Scott as a lively and thoroughly contemporary author (with a number of examples of his recent currency in official and unofficial culture).--SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900)"Possible Scotlands represents a novel and, in some ways, overdue treatment of Scott through the lends of postcolonial and poststructuralist theories whose currency reflect McCracken-Flesher's treatment of Scott as continuously current in discourses on culture and nation in Scotland."-Andrea Cabajsky, Université de Moncton"McCracken-Flescher's intriguing new Scott spills out of the Waverley novels into the contexts of Scottish media and political spectacle. Admirably researched." -- The Cambridge Quarterly.