This book describes the recent Scottish independence referendum as the latest incarnation of a contest between two times on one hand, an ideally continuous time beyond determination underpinning financial sovereignty, on the other the interruptions to this ideal continuity inherent in human action.

Michael Gardiner is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK.

1. The Undead, Again
2. Empty Time
3. Cracked Realism
4. The Golden Country
5. The Spirit of ' '57
6. Permanent Labour
7. The Nuclear Eternal
8. Scotland, Queued
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