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The Discovery of Scotland: Teaching Schedule
Week One: Introduction: Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing, Topographic Poetry, and Romanticism; Touring Scotland. What image of modern Scotland is conveyed by http://www.visitscotland.com/?
Week Two: Heading North: Daniel Defoe, 'The Account and Description of Scotland', in A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-26), ed. Pat Rogers (London and New York: Penguin, 1971, 1986), pp.559-679.
Week Three: The Sublime: Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757/1759), ed. Adam Phillips (OUP, 1990). DEEPIKA
Week Four: James Macpherson, 'Fingal' (1765), in The Poems of Ossian and Related Works, ed. Howard Gaskill and intr. Fiona Stafford (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp.53-104; Hugh Blair, 'A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian', in The Poems of Ossian, pp.345-408.
Week Five: Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), ed. Angus Ross (Penguin, 1967). LYNSEY
Week Six: Samuel Johnson, Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) and James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785) (these two books are usually published together; we will use the Penguin edition, ed. Peter Levi).
Week Seven: Reading Week; trip to the Trossachs (climbing Ben A'an and boat trip on Loch Katrine); trip to the National Gallery of Scotland.
Week Eight: The Picturesque: William Gilpin, 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 (1782), intr. Richard Humphries (London: Pallas Athene, 2005). William Gilpin, Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776, On several parts of Great Britain; Particularly the High-lands of Scotland (1789): please access this text from Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Week Nine: Dorothy Wordsworth, Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland (1803), ed. Carol Kyros Walker (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997); William Wordsworth, poems from the Scottish tour of 1803. WOJTEK
Week Ten: Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake (1810) (use any available edition) and Rob Roy (1818), ed. Ian Duncan (OUP, 1998). AMNA
Week Eleven: Edwin Muir, Scottish Journey (1935; Mainstream, 2008). ROSANNAH
Week Twelve: No seminar: essay deadline on Wednesday.
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