Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The Letters of Sir Walter Scott ...: 1817-1819
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Rob Roy
The Letters of Sir Walter Scott: 1831-1832, and appendices of early letters
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Policing the Metropolis of Scotland: A History of the Police and Systems of Police in Edinburgh & Edinburghshire, 1770-1833
Author:
Publisher: Turlough Publishers
ISBN: 0956791735
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher: Turlough Publishers
ISBN: 0956791735
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Sir Walter Scott
Author: Jill Rubenstein
Publisher: Hall Reference Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher: Hall Reference Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Stepping Westward
Author: Nigel Leask
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192590235
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192590235
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. ... A New Edition, Etc
Author: John Gibson Lockhart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Dante in English Literature from Chaucer to Cary (c. 1380-1844)
Author: Paget Jackson Toynbee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Scots and the Union
Author: Christopher A Whatley
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748680292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
This book traces the background to the Treaty of Union of 1707, explains why it happened and assesses its impact on Scottish society, including the bitter struggle with the Jacobites for acceptance of the union in the two decades that followed its inaugur
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748680292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
This book traces the background to the Treaty of Union of 1707, explains why it happened and assesses its impact on Scottish society, including the bitter struggle with the Jacobites for acceptance of the union in the two decades that followed its inaugur
Commemorating Peterloo
Author: Demson Michael Demson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474428592
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Reflections on the Bicentenary of the 1819 Massacre of Reformers in Manchester Two hundred years after the massacre of protestors in Manchester, known as Peterloo, distinguished scholars of Romantic-era literature join together in this commemorative volume to assess the implications of the violence. Contributors explore how attitudes toward violence and the claims of people to participate in government were reflected and revised in the verbal and visual culture of the time. Their analyses provide fresh insights into cultural engagement as a means of resisting oppression and a sign of the resilience of humanity in facing threats and force.Key FeaturesProvides a multi-perspectival, historical revaluation of the violence of Peterloo Draws on contemporary theorizations of violence by Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek and Rob Nixon to account for the cultural factors leading to PeterlooSupplements treatments of Peterloo centering on English history with attention to the significance of that event from Scottish, Irish and North American perspectives
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474428592
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Reflections on the Bicentenary of the 1819 Massacre of Reformers in Manchester Two hundred years after the massacre of protestors in Manchester, known as Peterloo, distinguished scholars of Romantic-era literature join together in this commemorative volume to assess the implications of the violence. Contributors explore how attitudes toward violence and the claims of people to participate in government were reflected and revised in the verbal and visual culture of the time. Their analyses provide fresh insights into cultural engagement as a means of resisting oppression and a sign of the resilience of humanity in facing threats and force.Key FeaturesProvides a multi-perspectival, historical revaluation of the violence of Peterloo Draws on contemporary theorizations of violence by Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek and Rob Nixon to account for the cultural factors leading to PeterlooSupplements treatments of Peterloo centering on English history with attention to the significance of that event from Scottish, Irish and North American perspectives