Discovering the Footsteps of Time: Geological Travel Writing about Scotland, 1700-1820 - Couverture rigide

Furniss, Tom

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1474410014 ISBN 13 : 9781474410014

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Traces the history of geological travel writing about Scotland across the historical periods of the Scottish Enlightenment and British Romanticism 'Discovering the Footsteps of Time' probes the development of a distinctively Scottish tradition of geological travel writing from the seventeenth to early nineteenth century. The tradition tracks a fertile interaction of scientific and aesthetic themes, mediated through literary techniques, which highlights the emergence of 'Romanticism' as such; a distinctive, recognisable cultural movement of taste and style. Making an important new contribution to our understanding of the 'discovery' and representation of Scotland in the long eighteenth century, the book explores why Scotland's topography has been decisive in the history of geology to such a great extent. Written by a literary academic rather than a geologist, the book is as much concerned with textual strategies and the aesthetic experience of geological discovery as with geology itself.Key FeaturesAdds to our understanding of the 'discovery of Scotland' in the 18th and early 19th century, developing a new account of the literary, aesthetic and geological meanings of 'the land of mountain and flood' in the periodOffers new insights about James Hutton's geological theory by attending to his geological travel writing about Scotland, and also locates Hutton's work within wider geological debates in and about ScotlandBuilds on previous work on the literariness of scientific writing in the 'second scientific revolution'Contributes to research on 'Romantic Scotland' and on the transition from Enlightenment to Romantic scientific travel writing

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tom Furniss is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Strathclyde.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474410014
• ISBN 13: 9781474410014
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 305
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• Personne responsable: non disponible