{"product_id":"discovering-the-footsteps-of-time-geological-travel-writing-about-scotland-1700-1820-9781474452472","title":"Discovering the Footsteps of Time: Geological Travel Writing about Scotland, 1700-1820","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTraces the history of geological travel writing about Scotland across the historical periods of the Scottish Enlightenment and British Romanticism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscovering the Footsteps of Time\u003c\/i\u003e probes the development of a distinctively Scottish tradition of geological travel writing from the seventeenth to early nineteenth century. The tradition tracks a fertile interaction of scientific and aesthetic themes, mediated through literary techniques, which highlights the emergence of 'Romanticism' as such; a distinctive, recognisable cultural movement of taste and style. Making an important new contribution to our understanding of the 'discovery' and representation of Scotland in the long eighteenth century, the book explores why Scotland's topography has been decisive in the history of geology to such a great extent. Written by a literary academic rather than a geologist, the book is as much concerned with textual strategies and the aesthetic experience of geological discovery as with geology itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey Features\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdds to our understanding of the 'discovery of Scotland' in the 18th and early 19th century, developing a new account of the literary, aesthetic and geological meanings of 'the land of mountain and flood' in the period Offers new insights about James Hutton's geological theory by attending to his geological travel writing about Scotland, and also locates Hutton's work within wider geological debates in and about ScotlandBuilds on previous work on the literariness of scientific writing in the 'second scientific revolution'Contributes to research on 'Romantic Scotland' and on the transition from Enlightenment to Romantic scientific travel writing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Furniss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474452472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Furniss is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Strathclyde. He has published widely on literature, philosophy, travel writing and geology of the eighteenth century and Romantic periods. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eEdmund Burke's Aesthetic Ideology: Language, Gender and Political Economy in Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (CUP, 1993).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45125217190003,"sku":"9781474452472","price":65.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_ea20a589-c980-4309-a36f-b17ee29219fb.jpg?v=1782232324","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/discovering-the-footsteps-of-time-geological-travel-writing-about-scotland-1700-1820-9781474452472","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}