List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION. The Mighty Scot:Nation, Gender, and theNineteenth-Century Mystique of Scottish Masculinity
What Is Scotland?
Male Troubles
Highlands, Lowlands, Scotland
“An Auld Sang”: Narrating the Nation
1. The Jacobite, the Marriage Plot, and the End of Scottish History
A British Family Portrait:Millais’s The Order of Release
Redgauntlet, the Lowlands, and the Historicity of
Scottish Nationhood
The Homoerotics of National Union
Discovering England’s Inner Scot in Post–Union Britain
2. Stags and Sassenachs: Stalking Manhood in the Highland Deer Forest
Monarchs, Glens, and the Victorian Deerstalking Craze
From Sissy to Stag: Memoirs and Manuals of Masculine
Transformation
Unlikely Heroes: Parody and the Pluck of the English
Moors and Manliness: Touching the “Untouched” Landscape
Who Are the Sons of Fingal? Comradeship and Class in the
Highlands
Stag Party: Performing Scottishness, Eating Venison, and Monarch of the Glen
3. The Lad with the Silver Button: Kidnapped and the Dilemma of Lowland Manhood
What Is Scotland? Lowland Masculinity and the Narrating
of Scottish Identity
Kidnapped and Scotland’s Split Personality
The Lad with the Silver Button
Conflicts of Genre
The Lad with the Line of Credit
“A Remorse for Something Wrong”:The Lowland Dilemma
Unresolved
4. Crimes of Authorship:The Master of Ballantrae and the Telling of the National Tale
The War in the Members: Scottish Divisions and the National Tale
Crimes of Authorship
The Homoerotics of Scottish Identity
The Imperial Option
Scotland the Grave: The Undead Corpse and the Burial Plot
5. “Into the Hands of Women”: The Wizard’s Son, the Glasgow Style,and the Return of the Feminine
Invisible Glasgow
“A Flood of Vital Power”: Oliphant’s Regendering of Scotland
“Baithe Sune and Syne”: History, the Celtic Past, and the Present
Family Values:Lineage, Hearth, and the Womanly Man
The Glasgow Style and Scottish Art
Technology, Tradition, and Teashops
The Survival of the Masculine Mystique
Notes
Works Cited
Index