Digital literary geography and the difficulties of locating 'Redgauntlet Country'

Donaldson, Christopher Elliott and Bushell, Sally Caroline and Gregory, Ian Norman and Rayson, Paul Edward and Taylor, Joanna Elizabeth (2016) Digital literary geography and the difficulties of locating 'Redgauntlet Country'. Studies in Scottish Literature, 42 (2). pp. 174-183. ISSN 0039-3770

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Abstract

Presents a case study about Sir Walter Scott's Jacobite novel Redgauntlet (1824), drawn from larger grant-funded projects in historical geographical information systems based at Lancaster University, reviewing a variety of other historic literary mapping projects, describing the text corpus of Lake District sources and models used in the larger projects, and contrasting the location of Scott's fictional geography and places in the Solway Firth area of South-West Scotland with the historic places, largely across the border in North-West England, to which he also refers.