Stepping Westward: Writing the Highland Tour C. 1720-1830

ISBN-13: 9780198850021 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 368 str.

Nigel Leask

Recenzje

The 110-year period covered here allows for a wide range of literary perceptions of the Highlands...

O autorze

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.