Description
About the Author
Nigel Leask is Regius Chair in English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is an internationally recognised scholar who has published widely on British and especially Scottish romantic literature and culture, with a special emphasis on empire, orientalism, travel writing, and 'improvement'. His most recent monograph is Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-century Scotland (OUP 2010), which won the Saltire Prize for the best research monograph in 2010. His edition of Robert Burns's Commonplace Books, Tour Journals and Miscellaneous Prose, the first volume of the Oxford Edition of Robert Burns's Writings, was published in 2014. He is CI of the AHRC funded 'Curious Travellers: Thomas Pennant and the Welsh and Scottish Tour, 1750-1820' (2014-18). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Vice-President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies.
Reviews
Leask's book thoroughly documents travelers' accounts of the Scottish Highlands back to the era of the Jacobite rebellions and traces their aesthetic legacy through the Romantic era. * Alexander Dick, European Romantic Review *
This rich book, the latest by Leask (Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland) devoted to the study of how Scotland has fared during its difficult modern relationship with England, focuses on the way non-Highland natives (most of them non-Scottish to boot) viewed and wrote about Scotland's northwestern-most region in the 18th and early 19th centuries... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * W. Franklin, University of Connecticut, CHOICE *
...an interesting and insightful book which contributes new perspectives to a well-studied topic. In doing so, it covers a substantial range of sources, including many captivating illustrations, which help transport the reader's imagination to the landscape under discussion. As debates about the Highlands' relationship with tourism, and the region's continued perception in some quarters as a wilderness, are particularly pertinent in a time of restricted travel, this book provides a valuable historical and literary perspective. * Alastair Noble, Eighteenth-Century Scotland *
The 110-year period covered here allows for a wide range of literary perceptions of the Highlands... * Sandy Thomson, History Scotland Magazine *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198850021
Author Nigel Leask
Format Hardback
Page Count 354
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 237mm * 161mm * 25mm