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.1 It was no accident , then , that the expansion of tourism in Ireland coincided with the growing importance of landscape in British culture . Landscape aesthetics , espe- cially the concepts of the sublime and the picturesque ...
... scenery.1 It was no accident , then , that the expansion of tourism in Ireland coincided with the growing importance of landscape in British culture . Landscape aesthetics , espe- cially the concepts of the sublime and the picturesque ...
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... scenery— I mean , by rural , the neat honeysuckle cottages , with their neat trim lit- tle gardens and beehives ; indeed this kind of scenery , can , I believe , be found nowhere but in England . The word ' rural ' is untranslatable ...
... scenery— I mean , by rural , the neat honeysuckle cottages , with their neat trim lit- tle gardens and beehives ; indeed this kind of scenery , can , I believe , be found nowhere but in England . The word ' rural ' is untranslatable ...
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... scenery : " To travel through such a country as this , and altogether to pass by its picturesque beauties would be unjust . Besides , I feel that persons of warm imaginations would never think of settling in the flats of Holland or ...
... scenery : " To travel through such a country as this , and altogether to pass by its picturesque beauties would be unjust . Besides , I feel that persons of warm imaginations would never think of settling in the flats of Holland or ...
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