A highland tour of Victorian travel writing : ten voices on Scotland /

During the first quarter of the eighteenth century, Scotland was persistently viewed as a peripheral region, inhabited by savage Highlanders, epitomising the sublime and the grotesque as well as the distance of the Scottish Other from civilised Europe. However, the rediscovery of the Ossianic tradit...

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Main Author: Kassis, Dimitrios (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023.
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