Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of
the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural
phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson
and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott,
Hogg, Keats, Daniell, and Turner, as well as numerous less
celebrated travellers and tourists. Addressing more than a
century's worth of literary and visual representations of the
Highlands, the book casts new light on how the tour developed a
modern literature of place, acting as a catalyst for thinking about
improvement, landscape, and the shaping of British, Scottish, and
Gaelic identities. It pays attention to the relationship between
travellers and the native Gaels, whose world was plunged into
crisis by rapid and forced social change. At the book's core lie
the best-selling tours of Pennant and Dr Johnson, associated with
attempts to 'improve' the intractable Gaidhealtachd in the wake of
Culloden. Alongside the Ossian craze and Gilpin's picturesque,
their books stimulated a wave of 'home tours' from the 1770s
through the romantic period, including writing by women like Sarah
Murray and Dorothy Wordsworth. The incidence of published Highland
Tours (many lavishly illustrated), peaked around 1800, but as the
genre reached exhaustion, the 'romantic Highlands' were reinvented
in Scott's poems and novels, coinciding with steam boats and mass
tourism, but also rack-renting, sheep clearance, and emigration.
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