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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... England Copyright © 2008 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved 1 3 5 4 2 for leslie Contents kkkkk Illustrations Preface viii ix Introduction 3. Printed in the United States of America Library of ...
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... England , the sea journey to Ireland broke the British traveler's sense of continuity . The physical act of crossing the Irish Sea reinforced the feeling of leaving home and homeland for another country.2 Moreover , before the advent of ...
... England , the sea journey to Ireland broke the British traveler's sense of continuity . The physical act of crossing the Irish Sea reinforced the feeling of leaving home and homeland for another country.2 Moreover , before the advent of ...
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... England only by going elsewhere : travel functions as a form of meta- commentary . " Thus , regardless of their genuine interest in Ireland , British travel writers almost instinctively used their encounters with Ireland and the Irish ...
... England only by going elsewhere : travel functions as a form of meta- commentary . " Thus , regardless of their genuine interest in Ireland , British travel writers almost instinctively used their encounters with Ireland and the Irish ...
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... England , Ian Ousby points out that attracting tourism was a major part of an estate's function . The great houses themselves were " the most effec- tive way of staking a claim on the social ladder and letting people know where one ...
... England , Ian Ousby points out that attracting tourism was a major part of an estate's function . The great houses themselves were " the most effec- tive way of staking a claim on the social ladder and letting people know where one ...
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... England in beauty and durability. Only Sweden's roads may have been better.15 Along with the development of Irish roads came maps and guidebooks, the dearth of which before the 1770s had discouraged travel in Ireland.16 By around 1750 ...
... England in beauty and durability. Only Sweden's roads may have been better.15 Along with the development of Irish roads came maps and guidebooks, the dearth of which before the 1770s had discouraged travel in Ireland.16 By around 1750 ...
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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