Lines and Languages: Dee Crossings and Offa’s Dyke (2024)

Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820

Mary-Ann Constantine

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2024

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9780191886645

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9780198852124

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Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820

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Constantine, Mary-Ann, 'Lines and Languages: Dee Crossings and Offa’s Dyke', Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 (Oxford, 2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 31 May 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191886645.003.0003, accessed 5 June 2024.

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the work of the Flintshire naturalist and antiquarian Thomas Pennant, whose Tours in Wales were influential in the growth of the Welsh tour as practice and genre. In the first of nine place-based studies it explores Pennant’s writings through the border territories of the Dee Estuary and the earthworks of Wat’s and Offa’s Dykes. It examines the significance of these lines of demarcation between England and Wales, and asks how such borders are ‘narrated’ and represented in the writings and the cartographical productions of Pennant’s circle. It finds that they are interpreted and questioned in a spirit of open enquiry, unlike the hard conceptual lines developed in the more nation-centred discourse of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Keywords: borders, Thomas Pennant, Downing, Dee Estuary, Wat’s Dyke, Offa’s Dyke, national identity, John Evans maps

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Industrial History Environmental History Literary Studies (Romanticism) Welsh History Literary Studies (Travel Literature)

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