Gerard Lee McKeever Libros

Focusing on the literary culture of southwest Scotland from 1770 to 1830, this book explores the emergence of modern cultural regionalism during a transformative period. It highlights how local literature reflected complex interactions with national and imperial narratives, influenced by figures such as Robert Burns, Walter Scott, and visitors like Dorothy Wordsworth and John Keats. The periodical press, along with the experiences of emigrants and adventurers, played a crucial role in reshaping the region's identity amidst evolving economic and environmental landscapes.

Explores the nature of Scottish Romanticism through its relationship to improvement* Provides new insight into the concept of 'improvement' * Advances current thinking on Scottish Romanticism* Identifies how improvement was involved in key aesthetic innovations in the period * Includes case studies across poetry, short fiction, drama and the novelThis book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish context. With chapter case studies covering poetry, short fiction, drama and the novel, it examines a range of key writers: Robert Burns, James Hogg, Walter Scott, Joanna Baillie and John Galt. Improvement, as the book explores, provided a dominant theme for literary texts in this period, just as it saturated the wider culture. It was also of real consequence to questions about what literature is and what it can do: a medium of secular belonging, a vehicle of indefinite exchange, an educational tool or a theoretical guide to history.