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

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"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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Williams, W. H. A.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2008.
Collection:History of Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
Sujets:
Travelers' writings, British > History and criticism.
TRAVEL > Europe > Ireland.
Historiography
Travel > Historiography
Travelers' writings, British
Récits de voyages anglais > Histoire et critique.
Ireland > Description and travel > Historiography.
Ireland > Historiography.
Irlande > Descriptions et voyages > Historiographie.
Irlande > Historiographie.
Ireland
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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