Travel writing and tourism in Britain and Ireland /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Cobert, Benjamin
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Subjects:	Tourism > Great Britain > History. Tourism > Ireland > History. Vacations > Great Britain > History. Vacations > Ireland > History. Travel writing > Great Britain > History and criticism. Travel writing > Ireland > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction: Home Tourism; B.Colbert
Peripheral Vision, Landscape and Nation-Building in Thomas Pennant's Tours of Scotland 1769-1772; P.Smethurst
Beside the Seaside: Mary Morgan's Tour to Milford Haven, in the Year 1791; Z.Kinsley
'Ancient and Present': Charles Heath of Monmouth and the Historical and Descriptive Accounts...of Tintern Abbey 1793-1828; C.S.Matheson
Britain through Foreign Eyes: Early Nineteenth-Century Home Tourism in Translation; B.Colbert
The Attractions of England, or Albion under German Eyes; J.Borm
The Irish Tour, 1800-1850; W.H.A.Williams
'Missions of Benevolence': Tourism and Charity on Nineteenth-Century Iona; K.Haldane Grenier
Holiday Excursions to Scott Country; N.J.Watson
'Every hill has its history, every region its romance': Travellers' Constructions of Wales, 1837-1911; K.Gramich
Famine Travel: Irish Tourism from the Great Famine to Decolonization; S.Thompson
Meeting Kate Kearney at Killarney: Performances of the Touring Subject, 1850-1914; K.J.James
'The romance of the road': Narratives of Motoring in England, 1896-1930; E.Coulbert
Home Truths: Language, Slowness, and Microspection; M.Cronin
Bibliography
Index.