Enlightenment Travel and British Identities: Thomas by Mary-Ann Constantine,Nigel Leask

By Mary-Ann Constantine,Nigel Leask

Enlightenment shuttle and British Identities is the first-ever selection of essays dedicated to the influential eighteenth-century shuttle author, antiquarian and naturalist, Thomas Pennant. delivering a really multidisciplinary diversity of views, the amount explores the advanced networks of informants who helped Pennant adopt and write up the trips in the back of his renowned Welsh and Scottish excursions. largely learn and lots more and plenty imitated, the excursions definitely helped lead to a richer, extra complicated knowing of the a number of histories and cultures of england at a time while ‘Britishness’ used to be itself a delicate and constructing proposal. Enlightenment shuttle and British Identities seeks to deal with the comparative overlook of Pennant’s commute writing via bringing jointly researchers from literary feedback, paintings background, Celtic reviews, archaeology and average historical past. conscious of the visible in addition to textual features of Pennant’s topographical enquiries, it rehabilitates a missed element of the Enlightenment relating to questions of British id, delivering a brand new overview of an immense bankruptcy within the improvement of household commute writing.

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