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The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Nation

The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Nation American, British and Canadian Studies / 162 10.2478/abcsj-2021-0023 Scott Hames. The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Nation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. Pp. 336. ISBN: 9781474418140 (paperback). Scott Hames’s The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Nation represents a meticulous and insightful study of the entanglements of Scottish devolutionary politics and Scottish culture, focusing on the period leading to the establishment of the new Holyrood Parliament in 1999. Not least among its merits one can list its minute investigation of several tense and contentious decades in Scotland’s recent literary history, and its willingness to engage in a lucid analysis of persistent national myths. The central question Hames examines concerns the much-vaunted relationship between the process of political devolution and literature’s formulation of newly canonical versions of Scottishness. Across the seven chapters, the answer comes in the form of a major contribution to our understanding of Scottish cultural politics, relying on works and arguments provided by several generations of writers, intellectuals, journalists, and politicians engaged in the project of creating a new Scotland. Through a varied range of ideas and examples (drawn from literature, poetry, political discourse, debates on gender status), Hames pursues the many analogies and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American, British and Canadian Studies Journal de Gruyter

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American, British and Canadian Studies / 162 10.2478/abcsj-2021-0023 Scott Hames. The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Nation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. Pp. 336. ISBN: 9781474418140 (paperback). Scott Hames’s The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Nation represents a meticulous and insightful study of the entanglements of Scottish devolutionary politics and Scottish culture, focusing on the period leading to the establishment of the new Holyrood Parliament in 1999. Not least among its merits one can list its minute investigation of several tense and contentious decades in Scotland’s recent literary history, and its willingness to engage in a lucid analysis of persistent national myths. The central question Hames examines concerns the much-vaunted relationship between the process of political devolution and literature’s formulation of newly canonical versions of Scottishness. Across the seven chapters, the answer comes in the form of a major contribution to our understanding of Scottish cultural politics, relying on works and arguments provided by several generations of writers, intellectuals, journalists, and politicians engaged in the project of creating a new Scotland. Through a varied range of ideas and examples (drawn from literature, poetry, political discourse, debates on gender status), Hames pursues the many analogies and

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