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"Focusing on eighteenth and early nineteenth-century travellers in Scotland, Tom Furniss finds new and striking things to say about the literary inflections of pre-scientific geological writing. Combining extensive research with personal experience of the Highlands, for anyone wishing to explore Scottish intersections of geology, literature, and aesthetics this is the go-to book.-- ""Nicholas Roe, University of St Andrews"""

Focusing on eighteenth and early nineteenth-century travellers in Scotland, Tom Furniss finds new and striking things to say about the literary inflections of pre-scientific geological writing. Combining extensive research with personal experience of the Highlands, for anyone wishing to explore Scottish intersections of geology, literature, and aesthetics this is the go-to book.-- ""Nicholas Roe, University of St Andrews""

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Tom Furniss is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Strathclyde. He has published widely on literature, philosophy, travel writing and geology of the eighteenth century and Romantic periods. He is the author of Edmund Burke's Aesthetic Ideology: Language, Gender and Political Economy in Revolution (CUP, 1993).

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