John Watson

j.watson.2@research.gla.ac.uk

Research title: Literature and the Scottish Landscape: the Textual Phenomenology of Place

Research Summary

Researching the representation of landscape in Scottish literature, through the interdisciplinary lenses of phenomenology, cultural geography, memory, and identity. 

Interests:

Robert Louis Stevenson and the transition to a global Modernism

Representations of Wilderness in Scottish Literature

The Landscape of Outrage: the Clearances and Scottish Literature

Modern Scottish Nature Writing

Heritage and Sport in Scottish Landscape Literature

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