Discovering the Footsteps of Time: Geological Travel Writing About Scotland, 1700-1820 (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism) - Softcover

Furniss, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474452477 ISBN 13: 9781474452472

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Tom Furniss is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Strathclyde. He has published widely on literature, philosophy, travel writing and geology of the eighteenth century and Romantic periods.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1474452477
• ISBN 13: 9781474452472
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 305