Clan-Albin: A National Tale (The Association for Scottish Literary Studies)

Written in 1815, the year of Waterloo, Clan-Albin is an extraordinary Romantic novel which communicates the horrors and tragedies of war. Despite following the adventures of a young soldier from Scotland to Ireland and Spain, strong female voices echo most clearly, as they lament the loss of Highland culture, scorn the emergent southern mercantile class, and despise the glorification of war.