'Pedlars of their nation's past: Douglas Galbraith, James Robertson and the new historical novel'
(2007)
Book Chapter
Boccardi, M. (2007). 'Pedlars of their nation's past: Douglas Galbraith, James Robertson and the new historical novel'. In B. Schoene (Ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature (97-105). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
The essay examines two post-devolution Scottish historical novels and relates their subject matter and narrative strategies to the competing discourses of Scottishness from Walter Scott's Waverley to the devolution settlement.