The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature

The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Title The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature PDF eBook
Author William Thomas Lowndes
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Pages 970
Release 1834
Genre English literature
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A Tour in Scotland 1769

A Tour in Scotland 1769
Title A Tour in Scotland 1769 PDF eBook
Author Thomas Pennant
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Pages 508
Release 1776
Genre Scotland
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A Tour in Scotland

A Tour in Scotland
Title A Tour in Scotland PDF eBook
Author Thomas Pennant
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Pages 270
Release 1774
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Enlightenment Travel and British Identities

Enlightenment Travel and British Identities
Title Enlightenment Travel and British Identities PDF eBook
Author Mary-Ann Constantine
Publisher Anthem Press
Pages 288
Release 2017-04-15
Genre History
ISBN 1783086548

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‘Weaving together science, history, antiquarianism and art, this stimulating collection of essays amply demonstrates Thomas Pennant’s centrality to a broad range of British Enlightenment debates and discourses, especially those relating to Britain’s so-called “Celtic Fringe”. At the same time, it underscores the epistemological importance of travel and travel writing in the late eighteenth century.’ —Carl Thompson, Senior Lecturer in English, St Mary’s University, UK

Stepping Westward

Stepping Westward
Title Stepping Westward PDF eBook
Author Nigel Leask
Publisher
Pages 354
Release 2020
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0198850026

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Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Hogg, Keats, Daniell, and Turner, as well as numerous less celebrated travellers and tourists. Addressing more than a century's worth of literary and visual representations of the Highlands, the book casts new light on how the tour developed a modern literature of place, acting as a catalyst for thinking about improvement, landscape, and the shaping of British, Scottish, and Gaelic identities. It pays attention to the relationship between travellers and the native Gaels, whose world was plunged into crisis by rapid and forced social change. At the book's core lie the best-selling tours of Pennant and Dr Johnson, associated with attempts to 'improve' the intractable Gaidhealtachd in the wake of Culloden. Alongside the Ossian craze and Gilpin's picturesque, their books stimulated a wave of 'home tours' from the 1770s through the romantic period, including writing by women like Sarah Murray and Dorothy Wordsworth. The incidence of published Highland Tours (many lavishly illustrated), peaked around 1800, but as the genre reached exhaustion, the 'romantic Highlands' were reinvented in Scott's poems and novels, coinciding with steam boats and mass tourism, but also rack-renting, sheep clearance, and emigration.

Enlightenment's Frontier

Enlightenment's Frontier
Title Enlightenment's Frontier PDF eBook
Author Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 465
Release 2013-06-18
Genre History
ISBN 0300163746

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DIVEnlightenment’s Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith’s famous defense of free trade? Fredrik Albritton Jonsson recovers the forgotten networks of improvers and natural historians that sought to transform the soil, plants, and climate of Scotland in the eighteenth century. The Highlands offered a vast outdoor laboratory for rival liberal and conservative views of nature and society. But when the improvement schemes foundered toward the end of the century, northern Scotland instead became a crucible for anxieties about overpopulation, resource exhaustion, and the physical limits to economic growth. In this way, the rise and fall of the Enlightenment in the Highlands sheds new light on the origins of environmentalism./div

Index Catalogue of the Manchester City Library

Index Catalogue of the Manchester City Library
Title Index Catalogue of the Manchester City Library PDF eBook
Author Manchester City Library (Manchester, N.H.)
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Pages 186
Release 1863
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