His name and image are everywhere, from Bank of Scotland fivers to the bizarre monument in Edinburgh's city center. Scott-land presumes that the reader will have only a hazy awareness of Sir Walter Scott, and, although Stuart Kelly will offer insights into Scott's works and biography, this is emphatically not a conventional literary biography, nor is it a critical study. Partly a surreptitious autobiography, Stuart Kelly was born near Abbotsford, his examination of Scott's legacy and character come to change his own thoughts on writing, reviewing, being Scottish, and being human

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