Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland [electronic resource] /
Colbert, Benjamin.author.
Colbert, Benjamin,1961-
From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the role of home tourism in the UK and Ireland in the development of national identities and commercial culture.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Home Tourism; 1 Peripheral Vision, Landscape, and Nation-Building in Thomas Pennant's Tours of Scotland, 1769-72; 2 Beside the Seaside: Mary Morgan's Tour to Milford Haven, in the Year 1791; 3 'Ancient and Present': Charles Heath of Monmouth and the Historical and Descriptive Accounts ... of Tintern Abbey 1793-1828; 4 Britain through Foreign Eyes: Early Nineteenth-Century Home Tourism in Translation; 5 The Attractions of England, or Albion under German Eyes; 6 The Irish Tour, 1800-50
7 'Missions of Benevolence': Tourism and Charity on Nineteenth-Century Iona8 Holiday Excursions to Scott Country; 9 'Every Hill has Its History, Every Region Its Romance': Travellers' Constructions of Wales, 1844-1913; 10 Famine Travel: Irish Tourism from the Great Famine to Decolonization; 11 Meeting Kate Kearney at Killarney: Performances of the Touring Subject, 1850-1914; 12 'The Romance of the Road': Narratives of Motoring in England, 1896-1930; 13 Home Truths: Language, Slowness, and Microspection; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the role of home tourism in the UK and Ireland in the development of national identities and commercial culture.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literature—History and criticism.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
British literature.
Sports—Sociological aspects.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Literary History.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Sociology of Sport and Leisure.