Download or read book Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to His Friend in London written by Edward Burt and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to His Friend in London Containing the Description of a Capital Town an that Northern Country with an Account of Some Uncommon Customs of the Inhabitants Likewise An Account of the Highlands to which is Added a Letter Relating to the Military Ways Among the Mountains Begun in the Year 1726 The Fifth Edition with a Large Appendix and the History of Donald the Hammerer etc written by Edward Burt and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters from a gentleman in the north of Scotland to his friend in London by E Burt With an intr by R Jamieson written by Edward Burt and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scotland the Worst written by Charles Maciejewski and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alternative guide to our bonnie wee country and its inhabitants, this book is a compendium of the less generous comments made by 17th, 18th and 19th century visitors. Hopefully much has changed – and mostly for the better!
Download or read book Stepping Westward written by Nigel Leask and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Highland Tour of Victorian Travel Writing written by Dimitrios Kassis and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first quarter of the eighteenth century, Scotland was persistently viewed as a peripheral region, inhabited by savage Highlanders, epitomising the sublime and the grotesque as well as the distance of the Scottish Other from civilised Europe. However, the rediscovery of the Ossianic tradition, the Scottish link to the Norman invasion and the increasing appeal of Scottish historical narratives to the average Victorian set the pattern for the reconstruction of a literary utopia. Facing the risk of racial segregation due to their Celtic background, a significant number of Scottish writers and theorists succumbed to the rising Anglo-Saxonism, seeking every means to prove their Anglo-Saxon background at the expense of their Celtic roots. This volume includes a set of travel narratives and essays on Scotland, covering a period of more than two centuries (1722-1907). The travellers who flocked to Scotland were either driven by literary aspirations, or were on a mission to explore the country’s wild inhabitants, the Highlanders. In their attempt to define Scottish identity in accordance with the cultural, ideological and political standards of the English, Scottish and American travel writers often adhered to the Othering of the Scottish people, promoting images of backwardness and the sublime.
Download or read book Catalogue de l histoire de la Grande Bretagne written by Paris bibl. nat, dépt. des imprimés and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Burt s Letters from the North of Scotland written by Edward Burt and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1730, Edmund Burt was sent to Scotland to work as a contractor for the government. His work on the military roads opened up the north and gave him unparalleled access throughout the area, allowing him to meet the people of the Highlands and observe their way of life. This book paints a sympathetic picture of the grinding hardship and poverty faced by so much of the ordinary population. Written in a witty and satirical style, this entertaining account is one of the most detailed sources of information on life and customs in the Highlands during the 18th century.
Download or read book Footsteps of Dr Johnson Scotland written by George Birkbeck Norman Hill and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Footsteps of Dr. Johnson (Scotland)" by George Birkbeck Norman Hill Samuel Johnson, often called Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. This book is a different sort of biography of this important historical figure as it provides a travelogue of sorts of the different locations in Scotland Johnson set foot.
Download or read book The Bibliographer s Manual of English Literature written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The New Coastal History written by David Worthington and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a pathway for the New Coastal History. Our littorals are all too often the setting for climate change and the political, refugee and migration crises that blight our age. Yet historians have continued, in large part, to ignore the space between the sea and the land. Through a range of conceptual and thematic chapters, this book remedies that. Scotland, a country where one is never more than fifty miles from saltwater, provides a platform as regards the majority of chapters, in accounting for and supporting the clusters of scholarship that have begun to gather around the coast. The book presents a new approach that is distinct from both terrestrial and maritime history, and which helps bring environmental history to the shore. Its cross-disciplinary perspectives will be of appeal to scholars and students in those fields, as well as in the environmental humanities, coastal archaeology, human geography and anthropology.
Download or read book Gentleman s Magazine Or Monthly Intelligencer written by Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.) and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bibliographer s Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare Curious and Useful Books etc written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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