Title Travel writing and Ireland, 1760-1860 : culture, history, politics / Glenn Hooper

Published Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 230 pages) : illustrations Contents From Grand Tour to Home Tour, 1760-1800 -- The Post-Union Traveller, 1800-1820 -- Trekking to Downfall, 1820-1850 -- Travelling to Write, 1850-1860 Summary Employing a wide range of travel and travel-related material from the period 1760-1860, this book offers new insights into the culture and history of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Ireland. It opens by exploring the development of the Home Tour as a rival to Grand Tour conventions, and assesses the ways in which Ireland deviated significantly from other Home Tour destinations. The book then focuses on the immediate Post-Union era which saw a dramatic increase in the number of, largely, British, travellers to the Irish shores, and considers the extent to which post-Union optimism lay behind a reawakened interest in Irish affairs. In later chapters the author offers an assessment of the period 1820-50, when older, negative representations of the Irish re-emerged, while in the final chapter he examines the role of the Post-Famine writer, frequently brought to Ireland to assess the economic and social state of the country, though also to sometimes speculate about a place increasingly regarded as ripe for investment and resettlement. A book which blends a number of case studies within a consideration of wider contextual matters, Travel Writing and Ireland, 1760-1860 should appeal to students and researchers from across the Humanities Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-218) and index Notes Print version record Subject Travelers -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century Travelers' writings, English -- Ireland -- History and criticism Travelers -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century British -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century British -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers. Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900. British & Irish history. Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900. Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800. TRAVEL. Literature. British Civilization -- Historiography Politics and government -- Historiography Travel -- Historiography Travelers Travelers' writings, English Reisbeschrijvingen. Engels. SUBJECT Ireland -- Politics and government -- Historiography Ireland -- Description and travel -- Historiography Ireland -- Civilization -- Historiography Subject Ireland Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2005047739 ISBN 9780230510814 0230510817

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