Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland
(Part of the History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora Series)
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British tourists in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were both charmed and repulsed. Picturesque but poor, abject yet sublime in its Gothic melancholy, the Ireland they experienced did not fit their British sense of progress, propriety, and Protestantism. 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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0299225208
ISBN13:9780299225209
Release Date:January 2008
Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"
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