Author: James CririePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Sketches in Verse, Descriptive of Scenes Chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland
Author: James CririePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Stepping Westward
Author: Nigel LeaskPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192590227
Category : Poetry
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 Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1801-11
Author: The Annual Review and History of Literature
Author: The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Industrial Britain
Author: Joseph StubenrauchPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019878337X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
It demonstrates that developments in technology, commerce, and infrastructure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were closely linked to theological shifts and changing modes of religious life as British evangelicals developed new methods of spreading the gospel and new forms of personal religious practice.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates (finished by Jon. A. Hjaltalin, and T. H. Jamieson)
Author: Samuel HalkettThe Surnames of Scotland
Author: George F. BlackPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788852966
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 2181
Book Description
First published by the New York Public Library in 1946, Black's The Surnames of Scotland has long established itself as one of the great classics of genealogy. Arranged alphabetically, each entry contains a concise history of the family in question (with many cross-references), making it an indispensable tool for those researching their own family history, as well as readers with a general interest in Scottish history. An informative introduction and glossary also provide much useful information.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H. M. Signet in Scotland
Author: David Laing (secrétaire du Bannatyne Club.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Alphabetical register of all the authors actually lving in Great-Britain, Ireland and in the united provinces of North America, with a catalogue of their publications. From the year 1770 to the year 1790, supplement and continuation from the year 1790 to the year 1803
Author: Jeremias David ReussPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Alphabetical Register of All the Authors Actually Living in Great Britain, Ireland and in the United Provinces of North America, with a Catalogue of Their Publications
Author: Jeremias David ReussPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description