Title: Travel writing and Ireland, 1760-1860
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.
Subjects: British, Civilization, Description and travel, Historiography, History, History and criticism, Politics and government, Travelers, Travelers' writings, English, Travelers' writings, history and criticism, British, ireland, Ireland, politics and government, Ireland, description and travel, Ireland, civilization, Traveller's history, TRAVEL, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, British & Irish history, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literature, Reisbeschrijvingen, Engels
Places: Ireland
Time periods: 18th century, 19th century