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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... Ireland 21 2. Historical and Religious Landscapes 32 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 Poverty and the Irish Character 105 7 ...
... Ireland 21 2. Historical and Religious Landscapes 32 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 Poverty and the Irish Character 105 7 ...
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... poverty—could have been accepted as differences of degree rather than kind. Great Britain, too, had its own poverty, its own mix of lan- guages, dialects, and folkways. Yet in important ways Ireland was dif- ferent. Prior to the Famine, ...
... poverty—could have been accepted as differences of degree rather than kind. Great Britain, too, had its own poverty, its own mix of lan- guages, dialects, and folkways. Yet in important ways Ireland was dif- ferent. Prior to the Famine, ...
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British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland William Williams. which Irish ... Irish tourism. In his Maps ofEnglishness Simon Gikandi suggests that British ... poverty prompt thoughts about conditions at home, the visitors pre- ferred ...
British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland William Williams. which Irish ... Irish tourism. In his Maps ofEnglishness Simon Gikandi suggests that British ... poverty prompt thoughts about conditions at home, the visitors pre- ferred ...
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... poverty emerged, not only as a sort of tourist attraction but as a primary signiQer for Ireland itself. Chap- ter 6 investigates the degree to which the travel writers understood Irish poverty and why they presented it as a uniquely Irish ...
... poverty emerged, not only as a sort of tourist attraction but as a primary signiQer for Ireland itself. Chap- ter 6 investigates the degree to which the travel writers understood Irish poverty and why they presented it as a uniquely Irish ...
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Contents
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21 | |
32 | |
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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