A Tour in Scotland 1769
Author : Thomas Pennant
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 1776
Category : Scotland
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Pennant
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 1776
Category : Scotland
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Pennant
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 1774
Category :
ISBN :
Author : William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher :
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 1834
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300049800
Observations on the principal cities, ports and geographical features, customs, manners, and inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 16,44 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198798741
Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides form a natural pair for an OWC because both books, often read and taught alongside each other, focus on the Scottish highlands.
Author : Thomas Pennant
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 1771
Category : History and Heritage
ISBN :
Author : New York Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 33,51 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Scotland
ISBN :
Author : Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Publisher :
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Archaeology
ISBN :
Includes List of members.
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : London : T. Cadwell and W. Davies
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 1807
Category : Hebrides
ISBN :
Author : Katherine Haldane Grenier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351878662
In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, legions of English citizens headed north. Why and how did Scotland, once avoided by travelers, become a popular site for English tourists? In Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770-1914, Katherine Haldane Grenier uses published and unpublished travel accounts, guidebooks, and the popular press to examine the evolution of the idea of Scotland. Though her primary subject is the cultural significance of Scotland for English tourists, in demonstrating how this region came to occupy a central role in the Victorian imagination, Grenier also sheds light on middle-class popular culture, including anxieties over industrialization, urbanization, and political change; attitudes towards nature; nostalgia for the past; and racial and gender constructions of the "other." Late eighteenth-century visitors to Scotland may have lauded the momentum of modernization in Scotland, but as the pace of economic, social, and political transformations intensified in England during the nineteenth century, English tourists came to imagine their northern neighbor as a place immune to change. Grenier analyzes the rhetoric of tourism that allowed visitors to adopt a false view of Scotland as untouched by the several transformations of the nineteenth century, making journeys there antidotes to the uneasiness of modern life. While this view was pervasive in Victorian society and culture, and deeply marked the modern Scottish national identity, Grenier demonstrates that it was not hegemonic. Rather, the variety of ways that Scotland and the Scots spoke for themselves often challenged tourists' expectations.