Nineteenth-century Scotswomen turned from the grand adventures of Walter Scott's historical romances to the splendour and exhilaration of everyday life.

JULIET SHIELDS is a Professor of English at the University of Washington. She is also the author of Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity (2010) and Nation and Migration: the Making of British Atlantic Literature (2016).

Introduction: The Scottish Novel after Scott; 1. Oliphant, Scott, and the Novelist's Trade; 2. Annie S. Swan's Friendly Fiction; 3. The Scottish New Woman and the Art of Self-Sacrifice; 4. The Colonial Adventure Story and the Return of Romance; 5. Scottish Modernism and Middlebrow Aesthetics; Conclusion: The Ethics and Politics of Transfiguring the Commonplace.