Preface; Introduction: The Dream and the Grind; 1. Chaps with Claymores to Grind: Literary and Political Nationalism 1967-79; 2. Machine Politics of British Devolution 1967-79; 3. The Scottish Dimension: Cultural and Constitutional Politics 1979-1987; 4. Claims of Right: Self-Determination and Consensus 1987-1992; 5. And the Land Lay Still: Curating Devolution with James Robertson; 6. Language Nationalism and Vernacular Literary Space; 7. Devolution and the Spectacle of Voice: Irvine Welsh, A.L. Kennedy, James Kelman; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.