Travel writing and Ireland, 1760-1860
Subtitle: culture, history, politics
By: Glenn Hooper.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Travelers -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century.; Travelers' writings, English -- Ireland -- History and criticism.; Travelers -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.; British -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century.; British -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.; Ireland -- Politics and government -- Historiography.; Ireland -- Description and travel -- Historiography.; Ireland -- Civilization -- Historiography.
Description: "Employing a wide range of travel and travel-related material from the period 1760 to 1860, this book offers new insights into the culture and history of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Ireland. It opens by exploring the development of the Home Tour as a rival to Grand Tour conventions, and assesses the ways in which Ireland deviated significantly from other Home Tour destinations. The book then focuses on the immediate Post-Union era which saw a dramatic increase in the number of, largely British, travellers to Irish shores, and considers the extent to which post-Union optimism lay behind a reawakened interest in Irish affairs.

In later chapters the author offers as assessment of the period 1820-1850, when older, negative representations of the Irish re-emerged, while in the final chapter he examines the role of the post-Famine writer, frequently brought to Ireland to assess the economic and social state of the country, though also so sometimes speculate about a place increasingly regarded as ripe for investment and resettlement. A book which blends a number of case studies within a consideration of wider contextual matters, Travel Writing and Ireland, 1760-1860 should appeal to students and researchers from across the Humanities."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.