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The High Road : Romantic Tourism, Scotland and Literature, 1720-1820, Hardback Book

The High Road : Romantic Tourism, Scotland and Literature, 1720-1820 Hardback

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The High Road situates romantic tourism in the locality best suited to display its character by studying texts that richly demonstrate relevant cultural developments and stand out as compelling intersections of history and personality.

Six accounts, significant for their literary quality as well as for the largely canonical status of their authors, distinguish a span of a hundred years during which tourism, carrying various romantic overtones, became the significant feature of modernity that it remains today.

The focus is on four literary tours produced, originally for Georgian audiences, by English authors: Daniel Defoe's Account and Description of Scotland, Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, William and Dorothy Wordsworths' complementary Memorials of a Tour in Scotland and Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland and the poems and journal-like letters that John Keats wrote on his 1818 journey.

In addition, an important alternative perspective is added by the inclusion of fictional Scottish tours in novels written by Scots - Tobias Smollett's Humphry Clinker and Walter Scott's Waverley. Because tour narratives are particularly conducive to self-revelation, these works elucidate the personal needs and conflicts that made taking Scottish tours and writing about them far more than casual and illustrates the important but little studied link between tourism and romanticism.

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