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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Edited by Mary-Ann Constantine, Nigel Leask

Publisher:: Anthem Press
Online publication date:: January 2018
Print publication year:: 2017
Online ISBN:: 9781783086542

Subjects:: British History: General Interest, History

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Enlightenment Travel and British Identities is the first-ever collection of essays devoted to the influential eighteenth-century travel writer, antiquarian and naturalist, Thomas Pennant. Offering a truly multidisciplinary range of perspectives, the volume explores the complex networks of informants who helped Pennant undertake and write up the journeys behind his popular Welsh and Scottish Tours. Widely read and much imitated, the Tours 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. Enlightenment Travel and British Identities 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 Pennant’s 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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Frontmatter
pp i-vi
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Dedication
pp vii-viii
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Epigraph
pp ix-x
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Contents
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List of Figures
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List of Contributors
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Preface
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Acknowledgements
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List of Abbreviations
pp xxiii-xxiv
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Introduction: Thomas Pennant, Curious Traveller
pp 1-14
- By Mary-Ann Constantine, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Nigel Leask, University of Glasgow
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Chapter 1 - ‘A Round Jump from Ornithology to Antiquity’: The Development of Thomas Pennant's Tours
pp 15-38
- By R. Paul Evans, Denbigh High School
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Part I - HISTORY, ANTIQUITIES, LITERATURE
pp 39-40
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Chapter 2 - Thomas Pennant: Some Working Practices of an Archaeological Travel Writer in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
pp 41-64
- By C. Stephen Briggs, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
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Chapter 3 - Heart of Darkness: Thomas Pennant and Roman Britain
pp 65-84
- By Mary-Ann Constantine, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
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Chapter 4 - Constructing Identities in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Pennant and the Early Medieval Sculpture of Scotland and England
pp 85-104
- By Jane Hawkes, University of York
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Chapter 5 - Shaping a Heroic Life: Thomas Pennant on Owen Glyndwr
pp 105-122
- By Dafydd Johnston, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
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Chapter 6 - ‘The First Antiquary of His Country’: Robert Riddell's Extra-Illustrated and Annotated Volumes of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Scotland
pp 123-140
- By Ailsa Hutton, University of Glasgow, Nigel Leask, University of Glasgow
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Chapter 7 - ‘A Galaxy of the Blended Lights’: The Reception of Thomas Pennant
pp 141-160
- By Elizabeth Edwards, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
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Part II - NATURAL HISTORY AND THE ARTS
pp 161-162
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Chapter 8 - ‘As If Created by Fusion of Matter after Some Intense Heat’: Pioneering Geological Observations in Thomas Pennant's Tours of Scotland
pp 163-182
- By Tom Furniss, University of Strathclyde
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Chapter 9 - Geological Landscape as Antiquarian Ruin: Banks, Pennant and the Isle of Staffa
pp 183-202
- By Allison Ksiazkiewicz
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Chapter 10 - Pennant, Hunter, Stubbs and the Pursuit of Nature
pp 203-222
- By Helen McCormack, Glasgow School of Art
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Chapter 11 - Pennant's Legacy: The Popularization of Natural History in Nineteenth-Century Wales through Botanical Touring and Observation
pp 223-244
- By Caroline R. Kerkham
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Short Bibliography of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Scotland and Wales
pp 245-248
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Index
pp 249-261
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Enlightenment Travel and British Identities

Thomas Pennant's Tours of Scotland and Wales

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Dedication
pp vii-viii

Epigraph
pp ix-x

Contents
pp xi-xii

List of Figures
pp xiii-xvi

List of Contributors
pp xvii-xviii

Preface
pp xix-xx

Acknowledgements
pp xxi-xxii

List of Abbreviations
pp xxiii-xxiv

Introduction: Thomas Pennant, Curious Traveller
pp 1-14

Chapter 1 - ‘A Round Jump from Ornithology to Antiquity’: The Development of Thomas Pennant's Tours
pp 15-38

Part I - HISTORY, ANTIQUITIES, LITERATURE
pp 39-40

Chapter 2 - Thomas Pennant: Some Working Practices of an Archaeological Travel Writer in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
pp 41-64

Chapter 3 - Heart of Darkness: Thomas Pennant and Roman Britain
pp 65-84

Chapter 4 - Constructing Identities in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Pennant and the Early Medieval Sculpture of Scotland and England
pp 85-104

Chapter 5 - Shaping a Heroic Life: Thomas Pennant on Owen Glyndwr
pp 105-122

Chapter 6 - ‘The First Antiquary of His Country’: Robert Riddell's Extra-Illustrated and Annotated Volumes of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Scotland
pp 123-140

Chapter 7 - ‘A Galaxy of the Blended Lights’: The Reception of Thomas Pennant
pp 141-160

Part II - NATURAL HISTORY AND THE ARTS
pp 161-162

Chapter 8 - ‘As If Created by Fusion of Matter after Some Intense Heat’: Pioneering Geological Observations in Thomas Pennant's Tours of Scotland
pp 163-182

Chapter 9 - Geological Landscape as Antiquarian Ruin: Banks, Pennant and the Isle of Staffa
pp 183-202

Chapter 10 - Pennant, Hunter, Stubbs and the Pursuit of Nature
pp 203-222

Chapter 11 - Pennant's Legacy: The Popularization of Natural History in Nineteenth-Century Wales through Botanical Touring and Observation
pp 223-244

Short Bibliography of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Scotland and Wales
pp 245-248

Index
pp 249-261

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