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The Discovery of Scotland: Further Reading

Andrews, Malcolm, Landscape and Western Art (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Andrews, Malcolm, ed., The Picturesque: Sources and Documents, in 3 vols. (Sussex: Helm, 1994).

Andrews, Malcolm, The Search for the Picturesque: Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism in Britain, 1760-1800 (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1989), especially 'The Highlands Tour and the Ossianic Sublime' (pp.197-240).

Ashfield, Andrew and Peter de Bolla, eds, The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Barrell, John, The Dark Side of the Landscape: The Rural Poor in English Landscape Painting 1730-1840 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980).

Barrell, John, The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place, 1730-1840: An Approach to the Poetry of John Clare (Cambridge University Press, 1972).

Batten, Charles, Jr., 'Humphry Clinker and Eighteenth-Century Travel Literature', Genre 7 (1974), pp.392-408.

Batten, C.L., Pleasurable Instruction: Form and Convention in Eighteenth-Century Travel Literature (California University Press, 1978).

Berghoff, Hartmut, et al, eds., Making of Modern Tourism: The Cultural History of the British Experience, 1600-2000 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).

Bermingham, Ann, Landscape and Ideology: The English Rustic Tradition, 1740-1860 (University of California Press, 1986).

Bray, Elizabeth, The Discovery of the Hebrides: Voyages to the Western Isles, 1745-1883 (Collins, 1986).

Bode, Christoph, and Jacqueline Labbe, eds, Romantic Localities: Europe Writes Place (Pickering and Chatto, 2010).

de Bolla, Peter, The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Stanford University Press, 2003).

Brennan, Matthew Cannon, Wordsworth, Turner, and Romantic Landscape: A Study of the Traditions of the Picturesque and the Sublime (Camden House, 1987).

Broun, Dauvit, et al, eds., Image and Identity: The Making and Re-making of Scotland Through the Ages (John Donald, 1988).

Buzard, James, The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to 'Culture', 1800-1918 (Clarendon Press, 1993).

Carlson, Allen and Arnold Berleant, The Aesthetics of Natural Environments (Broadview Press, 2004).

Chard, Chloe, Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour: Travel Writing and Imaginative Geography, 1600-1830 (Manchester University Press, 1999).

Clyde, Robert, From Rebel to Hero: The Image of the Highlander, 1745-1830 (Tuckwell Press, 1995).

Coats, Robert Hay, Travellers' Tales of Scotland (Gardner, 1913).

Coe, Charles Norton, Wordsworth and the Literature of Travel (New York: Bookmen, 1953).

Cosgrove, Denis, and Stephen Daniels, eds, The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design, and Use of Past Environments (Cambridge University Press, 1987).

Coupe, Laurence, ed, The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism (London: Routledge, 2000).

Crawford, Rachel, Poetry, Enclosure, and the Vernacular Landscape, 1700-1830 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Crawford, Thomas, Scott (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1982).

Daniels, Stephen, and Roger Lee, eds, Exploring Human Geography: A Reader (1996).

Daniels, Stephen, Fields of Vision: Landscape Imagery and National Identity in England and the United States (Polity, 1993).

Davidson, Peter, The Idea of North (London: Reaktion Books, 2005).

Davis, Leith, Ian Duncan, Janet Sorensen, eds., Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Dean, Dennis R., Romantic Landscapes: Geology and Its Cultural Influence in Britain, 1765-1835 (Scholars Facsimiles & Reprints, 2007).

Dehn, Paul, Romantic Landscape (London: Hamilton, 1952).

Dimbleby, David, A Picture of Britain, with essays by David Blayney Brown, Richard Humphreys and Christine Riding (Tate, 2005), plus BBC DVD with same title.

Duff, David, and Catherine Jones, eds, Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic (Bucknell University Press, 2007).

Duncan, James and David Ley, eds, Place/Culture/Representation (London and New York: Routledge, 1993).

Durie, Alastair J., Scotland for the Holidays: Tourism in Scotland c1780-1939 (Tuckwell: East Linton, 2003).

Fairer, David and Christine Gerrard, eds, Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell, 2003).

Fielding, Penny, Scotland and the Fictions of Geography: North Britain 1760-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Fitter, Chris, Poetry, Space, Landscape: Towards a New Theory (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Freeman, John, Literature and Locality: The Literary Topography of Britain and Ireland (London: Cassell, 1963).

Fulford, Tim, Landscape, Liberty, and Authority: Poetry, Criticism, and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996, 2006).

Gaskill, Howard, ed, The Reception of Ossian in Europe (Continuum, 2004).

Gaskill, Howard, ed., Ossian Revisited (Edinburgh University Press, 1991).

Glendening, John, The High Road: Romantic Tourism, Scotland, and Literature 1720-1820 (New York: St Martin's Press).

Gold, John R., and Margaret M. Gold, Imagining Scotland: Tradition, Representation and Promotion in Scottish Tourism Since 1750 (Scolar Press, 1995).

Grenier, Katherine Haldane, Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770-1914 (Ashgate, 2005).

Hamilton, James, Turner's Britain (London and New York: Merrell, 2003).

Hayden, Donald E., Wordsworth's Travels in Scotland (University of Tulsa Press, 1985).

Hayden, J.O., Scott: The Critical Heritage (Routledge, 1970).

Hebron, Stephen, The Romantics and the British Landscape (British Library, 2006).

Hechter, Michael, Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536-1966 (University of California Press, 1975).

Hefferman, James, The Re-creation of Landscape: A Study of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Constable, and Turner (University Press of New England, 1985).

Holloway, James and Lindsay Errington, The Discovery of Scotland: The Appreciation of Scottish Scenery through Two Centuries of Painting (Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1978).

Hook, Andrew and Richard B. Sher, eds, The Glasgow Enlightenment (Tuckwell Press in association with the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, 1995).

Hulme, Peter and Tim Youngs, eds, The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Hunt, John Dixon, The Figure in the Landscape: Poetry, Painting, and Gardening during the Eighteenth Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989).

Hunter, James, On the Other Side of Sorrow: Nature and People in the Scottish Highlands (Mainstream, 1995).

Hussey, Christopher, The Picturesque: Studies in a Point of View (London, 1967).

Janowitz, Anne, England's Ruins: Poetic Purpose and the National Landscape (Blackwell, 1990).

Kroeber, Karl, Romantic Landscape Vision: Constable and Wordsworth (University of Wisconsin Press, 1975).

Labbe, Jacqueline, Romantic Visualities: Landscape, Gender and Romanticism (Macmillan, 1998).

Landry, Donna, The Invention of the Countryside: Hunting, Walking and Ecology in English Literature, 1671-1831 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001).

Leask, Nigel, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Lindsay, Maurice, The Discovery of Scotland, Based on Accounts of Foreign Travellers from the Thirteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries (London: Robert Hale, 1964).

Lippard, Lucy, On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place (New Press, 2001).

Liu, Alan, Wordsworth: The Sense of History (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989).

Lorimer, Hayden, 'Ways of Seeing the Scottish Highlands: Marginality, Authenticity, and the Curious Case of the Hebridean Blackhouse', Journal of Historical Geography 25: 4 (1999), pp.517-33.

McNeil, Kenneth, Scotland, Britain, Empire: Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007).

McCracken-Flesher, Caroline, Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford University Press, 2005).

McCrone, David, et al., Scotland – The Brand: The Making of Scottish Heritage (Edinburgh University Press, 1995).

Macdonald, Murdo, Scottish Art (London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 2000).

MacFarlane, Robert, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (London: Granta, 2003).

MacLellan, Rory and Ronnie Smith, Tourism in Scotland (Thomson Learning, 1998).

Macmillan, Duncan, Scottish Art, 1460-2000 (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2000).

Mitchell, Arthur, and C.G. Cash, A Contribution to the Bibliography of Scottish Topography (Edinburgh, 1917).

Mitchell, Arthur, List of Travels and Tours in Scotland, 1296-1900 (Edinburgh, 1902).

Mitchell, W.J.T., ed., Landscape and Power (University of Chicago Press, 1994).

Moir, Esther, The Discovery of Britain: The English Tourists (Routledge, 1964).

Monk, S. H., The Sublime: A Study of Critical Theories in Eighteenth-Century England (University of Michigan Press, 1960).

Moore, Dafydd, Enlightenment and Romance in James Macpherson's "The Poems of Ossian": Myth, Genre and Cultural Change (Ashgate, 2003).

Morrison, John, Painting the Nation: Identity and Nationalism in Scottish Painting, 1800-1920 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003).

Nicolson, Marjorie Hope, Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite (1959, reprinted by University of Washington Press, 1997).

Ormond, Richard, The Monarch of the Glen: Landseer in the Highlands (Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 2005).

Pittock, Murray G.H., The Invention of Scotland: The Stuart Myth and the Scottish Identity, 1638 to the Present (Routledge, 1991).

Pratt, Mary Louise, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (Routledge, 1992).

Price, Uvedale, Essays on the picturesque, as compared with the sublime and the beautiful, and, on the use of studying pictures, for the purpose of improving real landscape (1794).

Ransom, P.J.G., Loch Lomond and the Trossachs in History and Legend (Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 2004).

Reed, James, Sir Walter Scott: Landscape and Locality (London: Athlone, 1980).

Rixson, Denis, The Hebridean Traveller (Birlinn, 2004).

Rubel, Margaret Mary, Savage and Barbarian: Historical Criticism of Homer and Ossian in Britain, 1760-1800 (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1978).

Schama, Simon, Landscape and Memory (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995).

Smethurst, Colin, Romantic Geographies: Proceedings of the September 1994 Glasgow Colloquium (Glasgow University, 1996).

Smith, Sheena, Horatio McCulloch, 1805-1867 (Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, 1988).

Smout, Christopher, 'Tours in the Scottish Highlands from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries', Northern Scotland 5 (1983), pp.99-121.

Smout, T.C., Nature Contested: Environmental History in Scotland and Northern England Since 1600 (Edinburgh University Press, 2000).

Smout, T.C., Understanding the Historical Landscape in its Historical Setting (Scottish Cultural Press, 2001).

Stafford, Fiona, The Sublime Savage: A Study of James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1988).

Stott, Louis, Ring of Words: Literary Loch Lomond (Creag Darach, 1995).

Stott, Louis, Ring of Words: The Trossachs (Creag Darach, 1997).

Spufford, Francis, I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination (St Martin's Press, 1997).

Thomson, Katrina, Turner and Sir Walter Scott: The Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland (Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1999).

Trench, Richard, Travellers in Britain: Three Centuries of Discovery (Aurum, 1990).

Trevor-Roper, Hugh, 'The Invention of Tradition: The Highland Tradition of Scotland', in Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds, The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp.15-41.

Vivies, Jean, English Travel Narratives in the 18th Century: Exploring Genres (Ashgate, 2002).

Walker, Carol Kyros, Breaking Away: Coleridge in Scotland (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002).

Walker, Carol Kyros, Walking North with Keats (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992).

Walker, Eric, Scott's Fiction and the Picturesque (Salzburg, 1982).

Watson, J.R., Picturesque Landscape and Romantic Poetry (London: Hutchinson, 1970).

Watson, Nicola J., The Literary Tourist (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

West, Thomas, A Guide to the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire (1778).

Wickman, Matthew, The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's Romantick Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006).

Wiley, Michael, Romantic Geography: William Wordsworth and Anglo-European Spaces (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1998).

Williams, Raymond, The Country and the City (London: Chatto and Windus, 1973).

Wilson, William, The Trossachs in Literature and Tradition (Stirling: Shearer, 1908).

Withers, Charles, 'The Historical Creation of the Scottish Highlands', in Ian Donnachie and Christopher Whatley, eds, The Manufacture of Scottish History (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1992).

Womack, Peter, Improvement and Romance: Constructing the Myth of the Highlands (Macmillan, 1989).

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