Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland

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1 Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland Edited by

2 Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland

3 Also by : BRITISH SATIRE, : Volume 3 (editor) SHELLEY S EYE: Travel Writing and Aesthetic Vision

4 Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland Edited by

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6 Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Home Tourism 1 1 Peripheral Vision, Landscape, and Nation-Building in Thomas Pennant s Tours of Scotland, Paul Smethurst 2 Beside the Seaside: Mary Morgan s Tour to Milford Haven, in the Year Zoë Kinsley 3 Ancient and Present : Charles Heath of Monmouth and the Historical and Descriptive Accounts of Tintern Abbey C. S. Matheson 4 Britain through Foreign Eyes: Early Nineteenth-Century Home Tourism in Translation 68 5 The Attractions of England, or Albion under German Eyes 85 Jan Borm 6 The Irish Tour, William H. A. Williams 7 Missions of Benevolence : Tourism and Charity on Nineteenth-Century Iona 114 Katherine Haldane Grenier 8 Holiday Excursions to Scott Country 132 Nicola J. Watson 9 Every Hill has Its History, Every Region Its Romance : Travellers Constructions of Wales, Katie Gramich vii viii ix v

7 vi Contents 10 Famine Travel: Irish Tourism from the Great Famine to Decolonization 164 Spurgeon Thompson 11 Meeting Kate Kearney at Killarney: Performances of the Touring Subject, K. J. James 12 The Romance of the Road : Narratives of Motoring in England, Esme Coulbert 13 Home Truths: Language, Slowness, and Microspection 219 Michael Cronin Bibliography 236 Index 250