Edinburgh Monuments, the Literary Canon, and Cultural Nationalism: A Comparative Perspective

Building on comparative studies of the memory landscapes of cities and monuments, describes three different monument series in Edinburgh, the Canongate Wall at the Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood, the flagstone quotations in Makar\u27s Court near the Writers\u27 Museum, and the grouped herms in the Edinburgh Business Park; discusses how the authors included in each series were selected and how each relates to the formal and informal Scottish literary canon; and briefly indicates what comparative scholarship suggests about the relation of such monuments to the development of cultural nationalism