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Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland (History of Ireland & the Irish Diaspora)
W.H.A. Williams
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Paperback. Series: History of Ireland & the Irish Diaspora. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 381.
British tourists in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were both charmed and repulsed. Picturesque but poor, abject yet sublime in its Gothic melancholy, the Ireland they experienced did not fit their British sense of progress, propriety, and Protestantism. Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character draws from more than one hundred accounts by English, Scottish, Welsh, and Anglo-Irish tourists written between 1750 and 1850 to probe the moral judgements British observers made about the Irish countryside and its native inhabitants.
Whether consciously or not, these travel writers defined their own British identity in opposition to a perceived ... Read more
British tourists in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were both charmed and repulsed. Picturesque but poor, abject yet sublime in its Gothic melancholy, the Ireland they experienced did not fit their British sense of progress, propriety, and Protestantism. Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character draws from more than one hundred accounts by English, Scottish, Welsh, and Anglo-Irish tourists written between 1750 and 1850 to probe the moral judgements British observers made about the Irish countryside and its native inhabitants.
Whether consciously or not, these travel writers defined their own British identity in opposition to a perceived ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
History of Ireland & the Irish Diaspora
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299225247
SKU
V9780299225247
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