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The Discovery of Scotland: Set Texts

Defoe, Daniel, A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-26), ed. Pat Rogers (London and New York: Penguin, 1971, 1986).

Burke, Edmund, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, ed. Adam Phillips (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990).

Gilpin, William, Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc. Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty: Made in the Summer of the Year 1770, intr. Richard Humphries (London: Pallas Athene, 2005).

Johnson, Samuel and James Boswell, Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, ed. Peter Levi (London and New York: Penguin, 1984).

Macpherson, James, The Poems of Ossian, ed. Howard Gaskill, intr. Fiona Stafford (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996).

Muir, Edwin, Scottish Journey (Mainstream, 2008).

Scott, Walter, The Lady of the Lake (1818), ed. Thomas Crawford (Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2010).

Smollett, Tobias, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), ed. Angus Ross (London and New York: Penguin, 1967).

Wordsworth, Dorothy, Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, ed. Carol Kyros Walker (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997).

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