Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland
William Williams
Broschiertes Buch

Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland

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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 writer...