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'Pedlars of their nation's past: Douglas Galbraith, James Robertson and the new historical novel' (2007)
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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.