Ebook: Feeling British: sympathy and national identity in Scottish and English writing, 1707-1832

Introduction: "Union and no Union": feeling British in the long eighteenth century -- "That propensity we have": sympathy, national identity, and the Scottish Enlightenment -- "Fools of prejudice": Smollett and the novelization of national identity -- "We are now one people": Boswell, Johnson, and the renegotiation of Anglo-Scottish relations -- "Harp of the north": romantic poetry and the sympathetic uses of Scotland -- "To be at once another and the same": Scott's Waverley novels and the end(s) of sympathetic Britishness -- Conclusion: "Imperfect sympathies" and the devolution of Britishness.