| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 267 pages) : illustrations |
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History of Ireland and the Irish diaspora |
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History of Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
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Introduction -- 1. Picturesque tourism in Ireland -- 2. Historical and religious landscapes -- 3. Putting Paddy in the picture -- 4. British tourists and the Irish stereotypes -- 5. Tourism and the semeiotics of Irish poverty -- 6. Irish poverty and the Irish character -- 7. Misreading the agricultural landscape -- 8. Discovering the moral landscape -- 9. Landscape, tourism, and the imperial imagination in Connemara -- Conclusion |
| 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 British identity in opposition to a perceived Irish strangeness: the rituals of Catholicism, the seemingly histrionic lamentations of the funeral wake, cemeteries with displays of human bones, the archaic Irish language or the Celtic-infused English that they heard spoken. Overlooking the acute despair in England's own industrial cities, they opined that the poverty, bog lands, and ill-thatched houses of rural Ireland indicated failures of the Irish character." "By the eve of the Famine of the 1840s, travel writers were employing stereotypes of Celtic, Catholic carelessness in the south of Ireland and Saxon neatness and enterprise in predominantly Protestant Ulster, even calling for "Saxon" colonization of the west of Ireland. The Famine cleared the land of many of the peasants, but the western landscape, magnificent in its scenery but poor in its soil, eventually defeated most of the British "colonists," leaving the region to an ever-increasing number of tourists who could enjoy the picturesque mountainscapes without the distracting contradiction of an impoverished populace."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-255) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Travelers' writings, British -- History and criticism
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TRAVEL -- Europe -- Ireland.
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Historiography
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Travel -- Historiography
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Travelers' writings, British
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Récits de voyages anglais -- Histoire et critique.
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Englisch
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Irland Motiv
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Reiseliteratur
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Ireland -- Description and travel -- Historiography
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Ireland -- Historiography
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Ireland
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Irlande -- Descriptions et voyages -- Historiographie.
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Englisch.
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Irland (Motiv)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007011940 |
| ISBN |
9780299225230 |
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0299225232 |
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1283486067 |
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9781283486064 |
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9786613486066 |
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661348606X |
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