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Tourism, landscape, and the Irish character : British travel writers in pre-famine Ireland /

"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 judgments British observers made about the Irish countryside and its native inhabitants." "Whet...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, W. H. A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2008.
Colección:History of Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Picturesque tourism in Ireland
  • 2. Historical and religious landscapes
  • 3. Putting Paddy in the picture
  • 4. British tourists and the Irish stereotypes
  • 5. Tourism and the semeiotics of Irish poverty
  • 6. Irish poverty and the Irish character
  • 7. Misreading the agricultural landscape
  • 8. Discovering the moral landscape
  • 9. Landscape, tourism, and the imperial imagination in Connemara
  • Conclusion.