This book examines the literary negotiation of Anglo-Scottish relations in the century following the 1707 Union between Scotland's and England's parliaments.

Juliet Shields is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Washington.

Introduction. The sentiments and politics of Union; 1. The Ossian controversy and the racial beginnings of Britain; 2. British masculinity and Scottish self-control; 3. Sentimental correspondences and the boundaries of British identity; 4. National tales and domestication of the Scottish Highlands; 5. Rebellions and re-unions in the historical novel.