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Enlightenment travel and British identities : Thomas Pennant's tours of Scotland and Wales / edited by Mary-Ann Constantine and Nigel Leask.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Anthem studies in travel
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798.
- National characteristics, British.
- History.
- Travel writing.
- Natural history.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Scotland--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Scotland.
- Wales--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Wales.
- Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798. Tour in Scotland, MDCCLXIX.
- Pennant, Thomas.
- Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798. Tour in Wales, MDCCLXX.
- Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798--Criticism and interpretation.
- Natural history--Scotland--Pre-Linnean works.
- Natural history--Wales--Pre-Linnean works.
- Enlightenment--Great Britain.
- Enlightenment.
- Great Britain.
- Travel writing--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- National characteristics, British--History--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 261 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, an imprint of Wimbledon Publishing, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: Thomas Pennant, Curious Traveller / Mary-Ann Constantine and Nigel Leask
- "A round jump from ornithology to antiquity" : The Development of Thomas Pennant's Tours / R. Paul Evans
- 2. Thomas Pennant : Some Working Practices of an Archaeological Travel-Writer in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain / C. Stephen Briggs
- 3. Heart of Darkness : Thomas Pennant and Roman Britain / Mary-Ann Constantine
- 4. Constructing Identities in the Eighteenth Century : Thomas Pennant and the Early Medieval Sculpture of Scotland and England / Jane Hawkes
- 5. Shaping a Heroic Life : Thomas Pennant on Owen Glyndwr / Dafydd Johnston
- 6. "The First Antiquary of his Country" : Robert Riddell's Extra-Illustrated and Annotated Volumes of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Scotland / Ailsa Hutton and Nigel Leask
- 7. "A galaxy of the blended lights" : The Reception of Thomas Pennant / Elizabeth Edwards
- 8. "As if created by fusion of matter after some intense heat" : Pioneering Geological Observations in Thomas Pennant's Tours of Scotland / Tom Furniss
- 9. Geological Landscape as Antiquarian Ruin : Banks, Pennant and the Isle of Staffa / Allison Ksiazkiewicz
- 10. Pennant, Hunter, Stubbs and the Pursuit of Nature / Helen McCormack
- 11. Pennant's Legacy : The Popularization of Natural History through Botanical Touring and Observation in Nineteenth-Century Wales / Caroline R. Kerkham
- Short Bibliography of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Scotland and Wales.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Louis Haney Fund.
- Other Format:
- Ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781783086542
- 1783086548
- Publisher Number:
- 99983480959
- 40027171847
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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