Introduction Robert Crawford; 1. From rhetoric to criticism Neil Rhodes; 2. Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, and the institutions of English Ian Duncan; 3. The prerequisites of power: Blair, belles lettres, and law Rajit Dosanjh; 4. Blair's Ossian, Romanticism, and the teaching of literature Fiona Stafford; 5. The origins of the university teaching of the novel Paul Bator; 6. William Greenfield: gender and the transmission of literary culture Martin Moonie; 7. The impact of Scottish literary teaching in North America Franklin E. Court; 8. Scottish academia and the invention of American studies Andrew Hook; 9. The influence of Scottish rhetoric on the formation of English studies in nineteenth-century English universities Linda Ferreira-Buckley; 10. The impact of Scottish literary teaching in Australasia Chris Worth; 11. Scottish writing and English studies Robert Crawford; Bibliography Linda Ferreira-Buckley; List of bibliographical essays.

'This is a riveting book. Its implications for intellectual history and for current political questions are far-reaching. As we watch Britishness apparently breaking up, this learned and lucid expression of Scottish cultural self-confidence is very welcome. It contributes to the self-understanding of England as well as that of Scotland, and at a critical moment.' The Observer