'Penetrat[ing] the Gloom of Britain's Farthest Glens': A response from the Highlands

Leask, N. (2022) 'Penetrat[ing] the Gloom of Britain's Farthest Glens': A response from the Highlands. Studies in Romanticism, 61(2), pp. 305-325. (doi: 10.1353/srm.2022.0021)

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Abstract

A response to the other essays in "An Inventive Age," developing their ecocritical revision of the antagonism between an "organic" Romanticism and industrialism. Framing its argument around the failure of the Scottish Highlands to industrialize like other regions of Britain, the essay explores some different inflections to key contemporary terms like "industry," "invention," and "improvement" in Thomas Garnett's 1800 Tour of the Highlands. Notwithstanding Garnett's cameralist hopes for a mixed ecology of growth in the region, his Tour disguises the structural dependence of the Highland economy on West Indian wealth, with implications for the other essays in the special issue.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Leask, Professor Nigel
Authors: Leask, N.
College/School:College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature
Journal Name:Studies in Romanticism
Publisher:John Hopkins University Press
ISSN:0039-3762
ISSN (Online):2330-118X
Published Online:16 July 2022
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2022 Trustees of Boston University
First Published:First published in Studies in Romanticism 61(2):305-325
Publisher Policy:Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy

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