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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... social landscape and negoti- ate the intricacies of society . Throughout the eighteenth century and much of the nineteenth , Nigel Everett writes , “ arguments about the aesthetics of landscape were almost always arguments about poli ...
... social landscape and negoti- ate the intricacies of society . Throughout the eighteenth century and much of the nineteenth , Nigel Everett writes , “ arguments about the aesthetics of landscape were almost always arguments about poli ...
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... social rather than geographical distance was their principal concern . In a society where the finest gradations of rank and social standing were considered extremely important , especially within the increasingly fluid middle class ...
... social rather than geographical distance was their principal concern . In a society where the finest gradations of rank and social standing were considered extremely important , especially within the increasingly fluid middle class ...
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... social and economic val- ues implicit in the favorite British landscapes . Indeed , the type of countryside most ... social stability based on the old paternalistic social hierarchy.33 This concept of order extended down to the lowest ...
... social and economic val- ues implicit in the favorite British landscapes . Indeed , the type of countryside most ... social stability based on the old paternalistic social hierarchy.33 This concept of order extended down to the lowest ...
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