The Scottish picaresque as environmental justice /

The picaresque novel has always generated widespread appeal due to the charisma and charm of its roguish main characters, who live by their wits on the margins of society. Spanish and English satires feature the perseverance and resilience of picaros who skirt and challenge the overreach of authorit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Van Renen, Denys (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Liverpool : Published by Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, [2025].
Series:	Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2025:02.
Subjects:	Scottish literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Picaresque literature > History and criticism. Scottish literature > 18th century > History and criticism. Scotland > Social conditions > 18th century. Scotland > Social conditions > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The Ecological picaro in Tobias Smollett's Roderick Random
"Her strange mockery": Balwhidder, the Gaffaws, and the survival of the Scottish picaresque
"Eyes fixed on the ground": the Scottish picaresque in Colonial America
Emigration and ecocatastrophe in Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
The Picaresque and Scottish-African independence
"Like is an ill mark": Smollett, Park, and the perseverance of the Scottish picaresque in James Hogg's Confessions
Epilogue : "Female Ulysses": The picaresque and reconfigurations of "home" in Mary Seacole's Wonderful adventures.