Edwards, Elizabeth (2018) ‘A Kind of Geological Novel’: Wales and Travel Writing, 1783–1819. Studies in Romanticism, 24 (2). pp. 134-147. ISSN 1354-991X
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Abstract
This article explores the layered and multivocal nature of Romantic-period travel writing in Wales through the theme of geology. Beginning with an analysis of the spectral sense of place that emerges from William Smith's 1815 geological map of England and Wales, it considers a range of travel texts, from the stones and fossils of Thomas Pennant's A Tour in Wales (1778–83), to Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday's early nineteenth-century Welsh travels, to little-known manuscript accounts. Wales is still the least-researched of the home nations in terms of the Enlightenment and the Romantic period, despite recent and ongoing work that has done much to increase its visibility. Travel writing, meanwhile, is a form whose popularity in the period is now little recognised. These points doubly position Welsh travel writing on the fringes of our field, in an outlying location compounded by the genre's status as a category that defies easy definition.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Wales, travel writing, literature and science, geology, Thomas Pennant, manuscripts |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
| Divisions: | Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies |
| Depositing User: | Elizabeth Edwards |
| Date Deposited: | 16 May 2024 13:55 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Aug 2024 01:18 |
| URI: | https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/2966 |
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