Stepping Westward: Writing the Highland Tour c. 1720-1830

Author:   Nigel Leask (Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198850021


Pages:   354
Publication Date:   10 March 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Stepping Westward: Writing the Highland Tour c. 1720-1830


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Author:   Nigel Leask (Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.752kg
ISBN:  

9780198850021


ISBN 10:   0198850026
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   10 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Old Ways and New Roads: Burt's Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland 2: Conquering Caledonia 3: Thomas Pennant's Highlands: Enlightenment Travel, Improvement, and National Description 4: 'Mr Pennant has led the way, Dr Johnson has followed': Johnson and Boswell in the Gàidhealtachd 5: 'Inhabited Solitudes': Dorothy Wordsworth and the Legacy of the Picturesque Tour 6: 'The Faery Ground for Romance and Poetry': Walter Scott and the Highland Tour 7: Scott on the Rocks: Tourism and the 'Romantic Highlands'

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The 110-year period covered here allows for a wide range of literary perceptions of the Highlands... * Sandy Thomson, History Scotland Magazine *


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Nigel Leask is Regius Chair in English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is an internationally recognised scholar who has published widely on British and especially Scottish romantic literature and culture, with a special emphasis on empire, orientalism, travel writing, and 'improvement'. His most recent monograph is Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-century Scotland (OUP 2010), which won the Saltire Prize for the best research monograph in 2010. His edition of Robert Burns's Commonplace Books, Tour Journals and Miscellaneous Prose, the first volume of the Oxford Edition of Robert Burns's Writings, was published in 2014. He is CI of the AHRC funded 'Curious Travellers: Thomas Pennant and the Welsh and Scottish Tour, 1750-1820' (2014-18). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Vice-President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies.

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