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Human capital theory, developing children as future workers, shapes
thinking about early childhood education policy around the globe.
International contributors problematize this thinking and offer
alternatives.
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.
From the ballad-seller to the Highland bard, from 'pot-house
politics' to the language of low and rustic life, the writers and
artists of the British Romantic period drew eclectic inspiration
from the realm of plebeian experience, even as they helped to
constitute the field of popular culture as a new object of polite
consumption. Representing the work of leading scholars from both
Britain and North America, Romanticism and Popular Culture in
Britain and Ireland offers a series of fascinating insights into
changing representations of 'the people', while demonstrating at
the same time a unifying commitment to rethinking some of the
fundamental categories that have shaped our view of the Romantic
period. Addressing a series of key themes, including the ballad
revival, popular politics, urbanization, and literary
canon-formation, the 2009 volume also contains a substantial
introductory essay, which provides a wide-ranging theoretical and
historical overview of the subject.
This volume of Robert Burns's Commonplace Books, Tours Journals and
Miscellaneous Prose Works is a major contribution to our
understanding of the life and writings of one of the major
Scottish, and British, poets of all times. To the extent that the
Commonplace Books and other prose writings offer a glimpse into
Burns's creative workshop, they record the self-conscious poetic
development of a man who was endowed with none of the advantages of
birth and education enjoyed by many other writers. Spanning nearly
two decades of his sadly foreshortened life, they permit a new
understanding of his unique relationship to the literary and social
culture of late eighteenth-century Scotland, and help explain how
and why this humbly-born Ayrshire farmer became a poet of world
renown. The items included here have never before been published
complete in one volume (some are published for the first time), and
they are arranged chronologically in order to highlight the major
creative stages of his life. In contrast to the poems and songs,
most of the material included was unpublished during the poet's
lifetime, so this new edition is largely based on fresh
transcriptions of manuscripts in Burns's hand, or in the hands of
his various amanuenses. It offers diplomatic transcriptions that
adhere as closely as possible to RB's original manuscript page,
retaining his eccentric spellings, capitalisation, long and short
dashes, punctuation, and use of ampersands, as well as marking
revisions and elisions. The edition features a general
introduction, and each item is preceded by full headnote, assessing
its importance in relation to Burns's life and poetic corpus. Notes
explicate names, cultural, historical and literary references,
providing full cross-references these with the poetry and
correspondence.
From the ballad-seller to the Highland bard, from 'pot-house
politics' to the language of low and rustic life, the writers and
artists of the British Romantic period drew eclectic inspiration
from the realm of plebeian experience, even as they helped to
constitute the field of popular culture as a new object of polite
consumption. Representing the work of leading scholars from both
Britain and North America, Romanticism and Popular Culture in
Britain and Ireland offers a series of fascinating insights into
changing representations of 'the people', while demonstrating at
the same time a unifying commitment to rethinking some of the
fundamental categories that have shaped our view of the Romantic
period. Addressing a series of key themes, including the ballad
revival, popular politics, urbanization, and literary
canon-formation, the 2009 volume also contains a substantial
introductory essay, which provides a wide-ranging theoretical and
historical overview of the subject.
The recent turn to political and historical readings of Romanticism
has given us a more complex picture of the institutional, cultural
and sexual politics of the period. There has been a tendency,
however, to confine such study to the European scene. In this book,
Nigel Leask sets out to study the work of Byron, Shelley and De
Quincey (together with a number of other major and minor Romantic
writers, including Robert Southey and Tom Moore) in relation to
Britain's imperial designs on the 'Orient'. Combining historical
and theoretical approaches with detailed analyses of specific
works, it examines the anxieties and instabilities of Romantic
representations of the Ottoman Empire, India, China and the Far
East. It argues that these anxieties were not marginal but central
to the major concerns of British Romantic writers. The book is
illustrated with a number of engravings from the period, giving a
visual dimension to the discussion of Romantic representations of
the East.
The decades between 1770 and 1840 are rich in exotic accounts of
the ruin-strewn landscapes of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico.
Yet it is a field which has been neglected by scholars and which -
unjustifiably - remains outside the literary canon. In this
pioneering book, Nigel Leask studies the Romantic obsession with
these 'antique lands', drawing generously on a wide range of
eighteenth and nineteenth-century travel books, as well as on
recent scholarship in literature, history, geography, and
anthropology. Viewing the texts primarily as literary works rather
than 'transparent' adventure stories or documentary sources, he
sets out to challenge the tendency in modern academic work to
overemphasize the authoritative character of colonial discourse.
Instead, he addresses the relationship between narrative,
aesthetics, and colonialism through the unstable discourse of
antiquarianism, exploring the effects of problems of credit
worthiness, and the nebulous epistemological claims of 'curiosity'
(a leitmotif of the accounts studied here), on the contemporary
status of travel writing. Attentive to the often divergent idioms
of elite and popular exoticism, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of
Travel Writing plots the transformation of the travelogue through
the period, as the baroque particularism of curiosity was
challenged by picturesque aesthetics, systematic 'geographical
narrative', and the emergence of a 'transcendental self' axiomatic
to Romantic culture. In so doing it offers an important
reformulation of the relations between literature, aesthetics, and
empire in the late Enlightenment and Romantic periods.
The first book of its kind to study the Romantic obsession with the 'antique lands' of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing is an important contribution to the recent wave of interest in exotic travel writing. Drawing generously on both original texts and modern scholarship in literature, history, geography, and anthropology, it focuses on the unstable discourse of 'curiosity' to offer an important reformulation of the relations between literature, aesthetics, and colonialism in the period.
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