Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Home Tourism....Pages 1-12
Peripheral Vision, Landscape, and Nation-Building in Thomas Pennant’s Tours of Scotland, 1769–72....Pages 13-30
Beside the Seaside: Mary Morgan’s Tour to Milford Haven, in the Year 1791....Pages 31-49
‘Ancient and Present’: Charles Heath of Monmouth and the Historical and Descriptive Accounts … of Tintern Abbey 1793–1828....Pages 50-67
Britain through Foreign Eyes: Early Nineteenth-Century Home Tourism in Translation....Pages 68-84
The Attractions of England, or Albion under German Eyes....Pages 85-96
The Irish Tour, 1800–50....Pages 97-113
‘Missions of Benevolence’: Tourism and Charity on Nineteenth-Century Iona....Pages 114-131
Holiday Excursions to Scott Country....Pages 132-146
‘Every Hill has Its History, Every Region Its Romance’: Travellers’ Constructions of Wales, 1844–1913....Pages 147-163
Famine Travel: Irish Tourism from the Great Famine to Decolonization....Pages 164-180
Meeting Kate Kearney at Killarney: Performances of the Touring Subject, 1850–1914....Pages 181-200
‘The Romance of the Road’: Narratives of Motoring in England, 1896–1930....Pages 201-218
Home Truths: Language, Slowness, and Microspection....Pages 219-235
Back Matter....Pages 236-264