Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770 1914: Creating Caledonia

ISBN-13: 9781138266377 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 268 str.

Katherine Haldane Grenier

Opis

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? Katherine Haldane Grenier uses published and unpublished travel accounts, guidebooks, and the popular press to examine the evolution of a false view of Scotland as untouched by nineteenth-century transformations.

Recenzje

'Essential to an understanding of the role of tourism in Scotland, one of the great success stories in the development of tourism. Draws on a fascinating range of visitors' diaries and journals. . . . Thoroughly enjoyable and readable.' Alastair Durie, The University of Stirling, Scotland 'Katherine Grenier's new study is a significant contribution to the expanding recent literature on tourism and identity in Scotland, and raises issues which as she points out still have a significant cultural resonance today, for Scots and for visitors to Scotland.' Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies ’... this book will help to redefine the research focus for anyone interested in the history, or indeed future, of the Scottish nation.’ Studies in Travel Writing

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Mapping North Britain, 1770-1810; The development of mass tourism, 1810-1914; Land of the mountain and the flood: tourists and the natural world; 'Free of one's century': tourism and the Scottish past; 'A fountain of renovating life': tourists and Highlanders; Postscript; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Katherine Haldane Grenier is an Associate Professor of History at The Citadel, Military College of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.