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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... scenery of Scotland and Wales might appear as “ natural extensions ” 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 ...
... scenery of Scotland and Wales might appear as “ natural extensions ” 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 ...
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... scenery.20 Toward the end of the eighteenth century , landlords and business- men began investing in canals , which facilitated the movement of both people and goods . Two east - west lines linked Dublin to the Shan- non River system in ...
... scenery.20 Toward the end of the eighteenth century , landlords and business- men began investing in canals , which facilitated the movement of both people and goods . Two east - west lines linked Dublin to the Shan- non River system in ...
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... scenery , but must have food for the body as well as the mind . ” Even the most enthusiastic scene hunters would not " subject themselves to the vicissitudes of such an uncertain climate as ours , without the certainty of such consoling ...
... scenery , but must have food for the body as well as the mind . ” Even the most enthusiastic scene hunters would not " subject themselves to the vicissitudes of such an uncertain climate as ours , without the certainty of such consoling ...
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... scenery did not ban- ish completely the older idea , inherited from the Grand Tour , of travel as a means of inquiry and learning . As Judith Adler notes , the traveler was still expected to observe political , social , and economic ...
... scenery did not ban- ish completely the older idea , inherited from the Grand Tour , of travel as a means of inquiry and learning . As Judith Adler notes , the traveler was still expected to observe political , social , and economic ...
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... scenery abundant in the wild and beautiful , a people rich in original character , a cordial and hearty wel- come for the stranger and a degree of safety and security in his jour- neyings such as he can meet with in no other portion of ...
... scenery abundant in the wild and beautiful , a people rich in original character , a cordial and hearty wel- come for the stranger and a degree of safety and security in his jour- neyings such as he can meet with in no other portion of ...
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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