Tourism and identity in Scotland, 1770-1914
Subtitle: creating Caledonia
By: Katherine Haldane Grenier.
Series: Studies in European cultural transition
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Tourism -- Scotland -- History; Travelers -- Scotland -- History; National characteristics, Scottish -- History; Heritage tourism -- Scotland -- History
Description: "In this book, Katherine Haldane Grenier uses published and unpublished travel accounts, guidebooks, and the popular press to examine the evolution of the idea of Scotland. Though her primary subject is the cultural significance of Scotland for English tourists in demonstrating how this region came to occupy a central role in the Victorian imagination, Grenier also sheds light on middle-class popular culture, including anxieties over industrialization, urbanization, and political change: attitudes towards nature; nostalgia for the past; and racial and gender constructions of the "other.""--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mapping north Britain 1770-1810; title: the development of mass tourism 1810-1914; title: Land of the mountain and flood : tourists and the natural world; title: "Free of one's century" : tourism and the Scottish past; title: "A fountain of renovating life" : tourists and Highlanders.