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- W2558483896 abstract "The aim of this thesis is to elucidate the relationship between the picturesque and theemergence of British national identity. It explores Scottish travel writings from the 1770sto the early nineteenth century, in order to examine the ways in which tourists employ thediscourse of the picturesque to imagine the British nation.The introduction sets out the questions this thesis attempts to address and defines thescope of discussion. It also outlines the general arguments surrounding the picturesque andspecifies the way in which picturesque descriptions of Scotland during the period will beapproached.Chapter One examines the writings of early tourists to Scotland such as ThomasPennant, Samuel Johnson and William Gilpin. Scotland's association with Jacobitismprevents Pennant and Johnson from perceiving the region as an integral part of the Britishnation and also prevents them from appreciating the natural beauty of Scotland. Thischapter shows how Gilpin assimilates Scotland's historical distinctiveness to his idea ofpicturesque beauty.Chapter Two surveys the description of landscape by tourists who are particularlyinterested in the economic improvement of Scotland. The 1770s and 1780s in Scotland aremarked by various endeavours to assimilate the region to the system of capitalist economy.The main interest of this chapter lies in the correspondence between picturesque discourseand contemporary economic discourse, and its attempt to elucidate the ways in which thepicturesque helps the development of commercial society to appear as a natural process.Chapter Three investigates the relationship between women's taste for the picturesqueand their sense of citizenship. In particular, it focusses on Dorothy Wordsworth'sRecollections of a Tour Made in Scotland. The Recollections demonstrates how Dorothyappropriates the picturesque to define her identity, and suggests that the equivocal quality ofwomen's picturesque language in some ways corresponds to their ambivalent status inmodem commercial society.Chapter Four concludes this inquiry into the picturesque's nation-projecting function byan examination of Walter Scott's idea of the picturesque. His first novel, Waverley, showshow he employs the picturesque to articulate his historical sense of Britishness. Thischapter illustrates how Scott uses his literary fictions to propagate a picturesque image ofthe British nation among the general public." @default.
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- W2558483896 title "Picturesque tours in Scotland : forming an idea of the British nation" @default.
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