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Stepping westward : writing the Highland tour c. 1720-1830 / Nigel Leask.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leask, Nigel, 1958- author.
- Riach, Alan, 1957- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scottish literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Scottish literature.
- Scottish literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature--Scottish authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Morgan, Edwin, 1920-2010--Criticism and interpretation.
- Morgan, Edwin.
- Highlands (Scotland)$xDescription and travel.
- Scotland--Highlands.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 339 pages) : illustrations, map
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- 'Stepping Westward' is a 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 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-188449-9
- 0-19-259022-7
- 0-19-259023-5
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