Author: Alexander CampbellPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
A JOURNEY FROM EDINBURGH THROUGH PARTS OF NORTH BRITAIN.
Author: Alexander CampbellA Journey from Edinburgh Through Parts of North Britain, Containing Remarks on Scottish Landscape and Observations on Rural Economy ... Interspersed with Anecdotes ... Together with Biographical Sketches ... with ... Engravings ...
Author: Alexander CampbellA Journey from Edinburgh Through Parts of North Britain ... Embellished with ... Engravings ... Also a ... Map of Scotland, and a Map of the Lakes
Author: Alexander CampbellRomantic Capabilities
Author: Mike GoodePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198862369
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Studying works by William Blake, Walter Scott, and Jane Austen, this volume examines the extent to which Romantic literary works can be said to prefigure the ways in which readers will engage with them after the time of their creation.
The British Critic
Author: Stepping Westward
Author: Nigel LeaskPublisher:
ISBN: 0198850026
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
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.
The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review
Author: The Book of British Topography
Author: John Parker AndersonPublisher:
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Category : British Isles
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Wild Black Region
Author: David TaylorPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788853709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This book tells the fascinating story of Badenoch, a forgotten region in accounts of Scottish history. Situated in the heart of the Highlands and with its own distinct historic and geographic identity, Badenoch was in the throes of dramatic change in the post-Culloden decades. This ground-breaking study reveals some radical differences from trends across the rest of the Highlands. Foremost was the role of the indigenous entrepreneurial tacksmen in driving the rapidly growing commercial economy as cattle graziers, drovers and agricultural improvers, inevitably provoking confrontation with the absentee and ostentatious Dukes of Gordon. Meanwhile, the common people still operated within a subsistence farming economy heavily dependent on a surprisingly sophisticated use of their mountain environment. Though suffering great hardship, they too were quick to exploit any potential commercial opportunities. Economic forces, social ambition and post-Culloden legislation created intolerable pressures within the old clan hierarchy, as Duke, tacksman and erstwhile clansman tried to forge their individual - and often irreconcilable - destinies in a rapidly changing world. In doing so, all were increasingly drawn into the wider, and often lucrative, dimensions of British state and empire.
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