 | Enlightenment Travel and British Identities: Thomas Pennant''s Tours of Scotland and Wales Subjects: Pennant Thomas 1726–1798. Tour in Scotland MDCCLXIX; Pennant Thomas 1726–1798. Tour in Wales MDCCLXX; Pennant Thomas 1726–1798 -- Criticism and interpretation; Scotland -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Wales -- Description and tra; 'Weaving together science, history, antiquarianism and art, this stimulating collection of essays amply demonstrates Thomas Pennant's centrality to a broad range of British Enlightenment debates and discourses, especially those relating to Britain's so-called "Celtic Fringe". At the same time, it underscores the epistemological importance of travel and travel writing in the late eighteenth century.' Mary-Ann Constantine is Reader at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. The author of The Truth against the World: Iolo Morganwg and Romantic Forgery (2007), Constantine has written widely on the Romantic period in Wales and Brittany. Nigel Leask is Regius Chair in English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow as well as a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is the author of Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland (2010), which won the Saltire Prize for best research monograph in 2010. |
