Tourism, landscape, and the Irish character : British travel writers in pre-famine Ireland / William...
Tourism, landscape, and the Irish character : British travel writers in pre-famine Ireland / William...
Tourism, landscape, and the Irish character : British travel writers in pre-famine Ireland / William H.A. Williams.
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Publisher
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], c2008.
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N914.15047/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
xi, 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Picturesque Tourism in Ireland -- 2. Historical and Religious Landscapes -- 3. Putting Paddy in the Picture -- 4. British Tourists and Irish Stereotypes -- 5. Tourism and the Semeiotics of Irish Poverty -- 6. Irish Poverty and the Irish Character -- 7. Misreading the Agricultural Landscape -- 8....
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Publisher
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], c2008.
Place of Publication
Wisconsin
Date Published
c2008.
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Summary
"Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character draws from more than one hundred accounts by English, Scottish, Welsh, and Anglo-Irish tourists written between 1750 and 1850 to probe the moral judgments British observers made about the Irish countryside and its native inhabitants." "Whether consciously or not, these travel writers defined their own Br...
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Tourism, landscape, and the Irish character : British travel writers in pre-famine Ireland / William H.A. Williams.
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History of Ireland & the Irish diaspora series.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2008.
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N914.15047/1
Record Identifier
74VK3XjleDZg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3XjleDZg
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ISBN
0299225208 (hbk.) :
9780299225209 (hbk.) :
DDC
914.15047
MMS ID
991023799989702626
