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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... , had been produced. Most of the travel writers did, indeed, describe the Irish landscape. However, in many instances their real subject was the Irish people, especially the peasantry . In fact , to varying degrees ix Preface.
... , had been produced. Most of the travel writers did, indeed, describe the Irish landscape. However, in many instances their real subject was the Irish people, especially the peasantry . In fact , to varying degrees ix Preface.
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British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland William Williams. especially the peasantry . In fact , to varying degrees , British travelogues written during the first century of Irish tourism , roughly 1750 to 1850 , were intended to ...
British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland William Williams. especially the peasantry . In fact , to varying degrees , British travelogues written during the first century of Irish tourism , roughly 1750 to 1850 , were intended to ...
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... peasantry , even the ubiquitous 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 ...
... peasantry , even the ubiquitous 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 ...
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... peasantry within a broader European context, something that was rarely done by British writers.37 Interesting as these accounts are, they lack that essential dynamic, the British-Irish connection, that forms the focal point for this ...
... peasantry within a broader European context, something that was rarely done by British writers.37 Interesting as these accounts are, they lack that essential dynamic, the British-Irish connection, that forms the focal point for this ...
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... peasantry . Chapter 3 shows how the tourist's gaze , when guided by the principles of the picturesque , enabled travel writers to partially aestheticize and romanticize the Irish peasantry . Chapter 4 discusses the relationship between ...
... peasantry . Chapter 3 shows how the tourist's gaze , when guided by the principles of the picturesque , enabled travel writers to partially aestheticize and romanticize the Irish peasantry . Chapter 4 discusses the relationship between ...
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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