'Your wee bit hill and glen': the cultural politics of the Scottish Highlands, c. 1918–1945 by Hayden Lorimer

“…This thesis examines the struggles for moral, cultural and political control of the Scottish Highlands during the period, c.1918-1945. Using library and archival material it demonstrates how a range of contesting landscape narratives, each based on an amalgam of myth, ideal and reality, were constructed for a region holding a peculiarly intense significance in the Scottish and British consciousness. …”
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Prophet of the Highlands : Sir Edwin Landseer and the Scottish Highland image by Trevor R. Pringle

“…This thesis thematically examines Sir Edwin Landseer's 0802-73> visual images of the Scottish Highlands. From consideration of Landseer's art and its social context it is argued that it is possible to gain an understanding of changing conceptions of both landscape and nature and the symbolic role of Highland Scotland in British middle class consciousness over the period 1820-1870. …”
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