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Titre(s) : Enlightenment travel and British identities [Texte imprimé] : Thomas Pennant's tours of Scotland and Wales / edited by Mary-Ann Constantine and Nigel Leask
Publication : London ; New York, NY : Anthem press, an imprint of Wimbledon publishing, 2017
Description matérielle : xx, 261 pages ; 24 cm
Collection : Anthem studies in travel
Lien à la collection : Anthem studies in travel
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Constantine, Mary-Ann. Éditeur scientifique
Leask, Nigel (1958-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Pennant, Thomas (1726-1798)
Récits de voyages -- Écosse (GB) -- 18e siècle
Récits de voyages -- Pays de Galles (GB) -- 18e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
508 (23e éd.) = Histoire naturelle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781783086535. - ISBN 178308653X (rel.). - ISBN 9781783086559 (erroné). - ISBN
9781783086542 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb471295744
Notice n° :
FRBNF47129574
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: Thomas Pennant, Curious Traveller / Mary-Ann Constantine and Nigel Leask
; "A round jump from ornithology to antiquity" : The Development of Thomas Pennant's
Tours / R. Paul Evans ; 2. Thomas Pennant : Some Working Practices of an Archaeological
Travel-Writer in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain / C. Stephen Briggs ; 3. Heart of
Darkness : Thomas Pennant and Roman Britain / Mary-Ann Constantine ; 4. Constructing
Identities in the Eighteenth Century : Thomas Pennant and the Early Medieval Sculpture
of Scotland and England / Jane Hawkes ; 5. Shaping a Heroic Life : Thomas Pennant
on Owen Glyndwr / Dafydd Johnston ; 6. "The First Antiquary of his Country" : Robert
Riddell's Extra-Illustrated and Annotated Volumes of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Scotland
/ Ailsa Hutton and Nigel Leask ; 7. "A galaxy of the blended lights" : The Reception
of Thomas Pennant / Elizabeth Edwards ; 8. "As if created by fusion of matter after
some intense heat" : Pioneering Geological Observations in Thomas Pennant's Tours
of Scotland / Tom Furniss ; 9. Geological Landscape as Antiquarian Ruin : Banks,
Pennant and the Isle of Staffa / Allison Ksiazkiewicz ; 10. Pennant, Hunter, Stubbs
and the Pursuit of Nature / Helen McCormack ; 11. Pennant's Legacy : The Popularization
of Natural History through Botanical Touring and Observation in Nineteenth-Century
Wales / Caroline R. Kerkham ; Short Bibliography of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Scotland
and Wales.
