Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland
Benjamin Colbert
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Description for Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349321285
SKU
V9781349321285
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Benjamin Colbert
JAN BORM Professor of British Literature, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France ESME COULBERT AHRC sponsored doctoral student, Nottingham Trent University, UK MICHAEL CRONIN Full Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dublin City University, Ireland KATIE GRAMICH Reader in English Literature, Cardiff University, UK KATHERINE HALDANE GRENIER Professor of History, The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, USA ... Read more
Reviews for Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland
'This well-conceived collection fills a definite gap in the existing scholarly literature; it will be a useful starting point for anyone interested in the British home tour.' - Carl Thompson, Lecturer in English, Nottingham Trent University, UK