Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland

by William H.A. Williams

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"