Enlightenment travel and British identities : Thomas Pennant's tours of Scotland and Wales /

Enlightenment travel and British identities : Thomas Pennant's tours of Scotland and Wales /

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Imprint:	London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, an imprint of Wimbledon Publishing, 2017.
Description:	xx, 261 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Anthem studies in travel Anthem studies in travel.
Subject:	Pennant, Thomas, -- 1726-1798. -- Tour in Scotland, MDCCLXIX. Pennant, Thomas, -- 1726-1798. -- Tour in Wales, MDCCLXX. Pennant, Thomas, -- 1726-1798 -- Criticism and interpretation. Pennant, Thomas, -- 1726-1798. Enlightenment. National characteristics, British. Natural history. Travel. Travel writing. Natural history -- Scotland -- Pre-Linnean works. Natural history -- Wales -- Pre-Linnean works. Enlightenment -- Great Britain. Travel writing -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. National characteristics, British -- History -- 18th century. Scotland -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. Wales -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain. Scotland. Wales. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Early works. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11031953

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Other authors / contributors:	Constantine, Mary-Ann, editor. Leask, Nigel, 1958- editor.
ISBN:	9781783086535 178308653X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Thomas Pennant of Downing, Flintshire (1726-1798), naturalist, antiquarian and self-styled 'Curious Traveller, ' published accounts of his pioneering travels in Scotland and Wales to wide acclaim between 1769 and 1784. He directly inspired Johnson, Boswell and hundreds of subsequent travellers. In Wales, he is known as the 'Father of Cambrian Tourism.' A keen observer and cataloguer of everything from plants, birds and minerals to ancient monuments and modern fisheries, he corresponded with a vast network of leading natural scientists and antiquarians. The 'Tours, ' widely read and much imitated, indisputably helped bring about a richer, more complex understanding of the multiple histories and cultures of Britain at a time when 'Britishness' was itself a fragile and developing concept. This collection seeks to address the comparative neglect of Pennant's travel writing by bringing together researchers from literary criticism, art history, Celtic studies, archaeology and natural history. Attentive to the visual as well as textual aspects of his topographical enquiries, it rehabilitates a neglected aspect of the Enlightenment in relation to questions of British identity, offering a new assessment of an important chapter in the development of domestic travel writing"--

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