Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Home Tourism

   • Benjamin Colbert

   Pages 1-12

3. Peripheral Vision, Landscape, and Nation-Building in Thomas Pennant’s Tours of Scotland, 1769–72

   • Paul Smethurst

   Pages 13-30

4. Beside the Seaside: Mary Morgan’s Tour to Milford Haven, in the Year 1791

   • Zoë Kinsley

   Pages 31-49

5. ‘Ancient and Present’: Charles Heath of Monmouth and the Historical and Descriptive Accounts … of Tintern Abbey 1793–1828

   • C. S. Matheson

   Pages 50-67

6. Britain through Foreign Eyes: Early Nineteenth-Century Home Tourism in Translation

   • Benjamin Colbert

   Pages 68-84

7. The Attractions of England, or Albion under German Eyes

   • Jan Borm

   Pages 85-96

8. The Irish Tour, 1800–50

   • William H. A. Williams

   Pages 97-113

9. ‘Missions of Benevolence’: Tourism and Charity on Nineteenth-Century Iona

   • Katherine Haldane Grenier

   Pages 114-131

10. Holiday Excursions to Scott Country

    • Nicola J. Watson

    Pages 132-146

11. ‘Every Hill has Its History, Every Region Its Romance’: Travellers’ Constructions of Wales, 1844–1913

    • Katie Gramich

    Pages 147-163

12. Famine Travel: Irish Tourism from the Great Famine to Decolonization

    • Spurgeon Thompson

    Pages 164-180

13. Meeting Kate Kearney at Killarney: Performances of the Touring Subject, 1850–1914

    • K. J. James

    Pages 181-200

14. ‘The Romance of the Road’: Narratives of Motoring in England, 1896–1930

    • Esme Coulbert

    Pages 201-218

15. Home Truths: Language, Slowness, and Microspection

    • Michael Cronin

    Pages 219-235

16. Back Matter

    Pages 236-264

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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.

• colonization
• decolonization
• essay
• genre
• German
• Great Britain
• history
• history of literature
• Ireland
• knowledge
• landscape
• performance
• Scotland
• subject
• truth
• British and Irish Literature

'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

• University of Wolverhampton, UK

  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 K. J. JAMES Associate Professor of History, University of Guelph, Canada ZOE KINSLEY Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Liverpool Hope University, UK C. S. MATHESON Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Windsor, Canada PAUL SMETHURST Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong SPURGEON THOMPSON Lecturer, CTL College, Limassol, Cyprus NICOLA J. WATSON Senior Lecturer in Literature, Open University, UK WILLIAM H. A. WILLIAMS Independent scholar

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