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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... tion about his hosts—“Who are they?”—inevitably prompts the query “Who am I?” Surrounded by foreign difference, the visitor feels impelled to assert and sharpen his sense of self and homeland. This can be tricky, especially if the ...
... tion about his hosts—“Who are they?”—inevitably prompts the query “Who am I?” Surrounded by foreign difference, the visitor feels impelled to assert and sharpen his sense of self and homeland. This can be tricky, especially if the ...
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... tion, which often generated invitations to stay at the “big house.” For much of the eighteenth century, moreover, the Irish “quality,” for their part, tended to visit England or the Continent rather than travel around their own country ...
... tion, which often generated invitations to stay at the “big house.” For much of the eighteenth century, moreover, the Irish “quality,” for their part, tended to visit England or the Continent rather than travel around their own country ...
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... tion,” warned Gilpin. “She is an admirable colourist; and can harmo- nize her tints with inQnite variety, and inimitable beauty; but is sel- dom so correct in composition, as to produce an harmonious whole.” Whenever nature proved ...
... tion,” warned Gilpin. “She is an admirable colourist; and can harmo- nize her tints with inQnite variety, and inimitable beauty; but is sel- dom so correct in composition, as to produce an harmonious whole.” Whenever nature proved ...
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... tion, their feelings scripted according to the expectations of tourism and the concepts of the sublime and the picturesque (see Qgure 3). Yet these moments of melancholy were more than romantic self-indul- gence. The overwhelming sense ...
... tion, their feelings scripted according to the expectations of tourism and the concepts of the sublime and the picturesque (see Qgure 3). Yet these moments of melancholy were more than romantic self-indul- gence. The overwhelming sense ...
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... tion within the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy to justify its position simply in terms of conquest. Some of those eighteenth-century Protestants seeking greater power for their parliament in Dublin also sought an Irish or “Celtic” identity of ...
... tion within the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy to justify its position simply in terms of conquest. Some of those eighteenth-century Protestants seeking greater power for their parliament in Dublin also sought an Irish or “Celtic” identity 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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