Title Stepping westward : writing the Highland tour c. 1720-1830 / Nigel Leask

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 339 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) Summary 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. 0It 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Audience Specialized Notes Print version record Subject Morgan, Edwin, 1920-2010 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Morgan, Edwin, 1920-2010. fast (OCoLC)fst01756754 Subject Scottish literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Scottish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Scottish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism English literature -- Scottish authors. Scottish literature. Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Riach, Alan, 1957- author. ISBN 9780192590237 0192590235 9780192590220 0192590227

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