Border police: Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, the law, and the 1790s

Penelope Fielding

Border police: Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, the law, and the 1790s

School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

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Discusses Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802 etc) in the context of Border history, Scottish legal philosophy, the jurisdictional and cultural concept of the "Debateable Lands," and the Scottish political situation during the political trials and the Militia Act riots in the 1790s.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	23-38
Journal	Studies in Scottish Literature
Volume	45
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 22 Nov 2019

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This is the accepted version of the following article: Fielding, Penny (2019) "Border Police: Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, the Law, and the 1790s," Studies in Scottish Literature: Vol. 45: Iss. 1, 23–38. , which has been published in final form at https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol45/iss1/3 .
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