Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine IrelandPicturesque but poor, abject yet sublime in its Gothic melancholy, the Ireland perceived by British visitors during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not fit their ideas of progress, propriety, and Protestantism. The rituals of Irish Catholicism, the lamentations of funeral wakes, the Irish language they could not comprehend, even the landscapes were all strange to tourists from England, Wales, and Scotland. Overlooking the acute despair in England’s own industrial cities, these travelers opined in their writings that the poverty, bog lands, and ill-thatched houses of rural Ireland indicated moral failures of the Irish character. |
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... Caesar Otway , G. N. Wright , Henry D. Inglis , and Anna and Samuel Carter Hall , were known for their travel writing . Exploring the Pre - Famine Travel Narrative Travel writing , as suggested earlier , is a sustained search for differ ...
... Caesar Otway , G. N. Wright , Henry D. Inglis , and Anna and Samuel Carter Hall , were known for their travel writing . Exploring the Pre - Famine Travel Narrative Travel writing , as suggested earlier , is a sustained search for differ ...
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... Caesar Otway described the area's coastal mountains and sea cliffs as the great " redoubts of the continent of Europe against the force of the great ocean . " It seemed to him as if Noah's deluge had left the shore washed " to the very ...
... Caesar Otway described the area's coastal mountains and sea cliffs as the great " redoubts of the continent of Europe against the force of the great ocean . " It seemed to him as if Noah's deluge had left the shore washed " to the very ...
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... Caesar Otway was displeased with the new Roman Catholic cathedral he found in Tuam , County Galway . He felt , in fact , that the whole town “ had a Romish look — that indolent , unbusi- ness - like , ' ne'er - do - well ' look — which ...
... Caesar Otway was displeased with the new Roman Catholic cathedral he found in Tuam , County Galway . He felt , in fact , that the whole town “ had a Romish look — that indolent , unbusi- ness - like , ' ne'er - do - well ' look — which ...
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... Caesar Otway , an Anglo - Irish Evangelical editor and polemicist who was also a talented travel writer . In his first travel book , Sketches in Ireland ( 1827 ) , he described a visit to the ancient and popular pilgrimage site of Lough ...
... Caesar Otway , an Anglo - Irish Evangelical editor and polemicist who was also a talented travel writer . In his first travel book , Sketches in Ireland ( 1827 ) , he described a visit to the ancient and popular pilgrimage site of Lough ...
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Contents
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3 Putting Paddy in the Picture | 51 |
4 British Tourists and Irish Stereotypes | 63 |
5 Tourism and the Semeiotics of Irish Poverty | 80 |
6 Irish Povety and the Irish Character | 105 |
7 Misreading the Agricultural Landscape | 127 |
8 Discovering the Moral Landscape | 147 |
9 Landscape Tourism and the Imperial Imagination in Connemara | 162 |
Conclusion | 195 |
Notes | 201 |
Bibliography | 233 |
Index | 257 |
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