Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. The Modern Nation-State and Its Others: Civilizing Missions at Home and Abroad, ca. 1600 to 1800
  • Chapter 2. Anglophone Literature of Civilization and the Hybridized Gaelic Subject: Martin Martin's Travel Writings
  • Chapter 3. The Reemergence of the Primitive Other?: Noble Savagery and the Romantic Age
  • Chapter 4. From Flirtations with Romantic Otherness to a More Integrated National Synthesis: "Gentleman Savages" in Walter Scott's Novel Waverley
  • Chapter 5. Of Celts and Teutons: Racial Biology and Anti-Gaelic Discourse, ca. 1780-1860
  • Chapter 6. Racist Reversals: Appropriating Racial Typology in Late Nineteenth-Century Pro-Gaelic Discourse.