Nigel Leask is Regius Chair in English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is an internationally recognised scholar who has published widely on British and especially Scottish romantic literature and culture, with a special emphasis on empire, orientalism, travel writing, and 'improvement'. His most recent monograph is Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-century Scotland (OUP 2010), which won the Saltire Prize for the best research monograph in 2010. His edition of Robert Burns's Commonplace Books, Tour Journals and Miscellaneous Prose, the first volume of the Oxford Edition of Robert Burns's Writings, was published in 2014. He is CI of the AHRC funded 'Curious Travellers: Thomas Pennant and the Welsh and Scottish Tour, 1750-1820' (2014-18). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Vice-President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies.

• Introduction 1: Old Ways and New Roads: Burt's Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland 2: Conquering Caledonia 3: Thomas Pennant's Highlands: Enlightenment Travel, Improvement, and National Description 4: 'Mr Pennant has led the way, Dr Johnson has followed': Johnson and Boswell in the Gàidhealtachd 5: 'Inhabited Solitudes': Dorothy Wordsworth and the Legacy of the Picturesque Tour 6: 'The Faery Ground for Romance and Poetry': Walter Scott and the Highland Tour 7: Scott on the Rocks: Tourism and the 'Romantic Highlands'

Leask's book thoroughly documents travelers' accounts of the Scottish Highlands back to the era of the Jacobite rebellions and traces their aesthetic legacy through the Romantic era.

Nigel Leask is Regius Chair in English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is an internationally recognised scholar who has published widely on British and especially Scottish romantic literature and culture, with a special emphasis on empire, orientalism, travel writing, and 'improvement'. His most recent monograph is Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-century Scotland (OUP 2010), which won the Saltire Prize for the best research monograph in 2010. His edition of Robert Burns's Commonplace Books, Tour Journals and Miscellaneous Prose, the first volume of the Oxford Edition of Robert Burns's Writings, was published in 2014. He is CI of the AHRC funded 'Curious Travellers: Thomas Pennant and the Welsh and Scottish Tour, 1750-1820' (2014-18). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Vice-President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies.

• Introduction 1: Old Ways and New Roads: Burt's Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland 2: Conquering Caledonia 3: Thomas Pennant's Highlands: Enlightenment Travel, Improvement, and National Description 4: 'Mr Pennant has led the way, Dr Johnson has followed': Johnson and Boswell in the Gàidhealtachd 5: 'Inhabited Solitudes': Dorothy Wordsworth and the Legacy of the Picturesque Tour 6: 'The Faery Ground for Romance and Poetry': Walter Scott and the Highland Tour 7: Scott on the Rocks: Tourism and the 'Romantic Highlands'

Leask's book thoroughly documents travelers' accounts of the Scottish Highlands back to the era of the Jacobite rebellions and traces their aesthetic legacy through the Romantic era.

Nigel Leask is Regius Chair in English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is an internationally recognised scholar who has published widely on British and especially Scottish romantic literature and culture, with a special emphasis on empire, orientalism, travel writing, and 'improvement'. His most recent monograph is Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-century Scotland (OUP 2010), which won the Saltire Prize for the best research monograph in 2010. His edition of Robert Burns's Commonplace Books, Tour Journals and Miscellaneous Prose, the first volume of the Oxford Edition of Robert Burns's Writings, was published in 2014. He is CI of the AHRC funded 'Curious Travellers: Thomas Pennant and the Welsh and Scottish Tour, 1750-1820' (2014-18). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Vice-President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies.

• Introduction 1: Old Ways and New Roads: Burt's Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland 2: Conquering Caledonia 3: Thomas Pennant's Highlands: Enlightenment Travel, Improvement, and National Description 4: 'Mr Pennant has led the way, Dr Johnson has followed': Johnson and Boswell in the Gàidhealtachd 5: 'Inhabited Solitudes': Dorothy Wordsworth and the Legacy of the Picturesque Tour 6: 'The Faery Ground for Romance and Poetry': Walter Scott and the Highland Tour 7: Scott on the Rocks: Tourism and the 'Romantic Highlands'

Leask's book thoroughly documents travelers' accounts of the Scottish Highlands back to the era of the Jacobite rebellions and traces their aesthetic legacy through the Romantic era.