Tourists and travellers : women's non-fictional writing about Scotland, 1770-1830
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Tourists and travellers : women's non-fictional writing about Scotland, 1770-1830
（Tourism and cultural change）
Channel View Publications, c2010
- : hbk
Available at 6 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-173) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, travel and tourism in Scotland changed radically, from a time when there were very few travellers and no provision for those that there were, through to Scotland’s emergence as a fully fledged tourist destination with the necessary physical and economic infrastructure. As the experience of travelling in Scotland changed, so too did the ways in which travellers wrote about their experiences. Tourists and Travellers explores the changing nature of travel and of travel writing in and about Scotland, focusing on the writings of five women - Sarah Murray, Anne Grant, Dorothy Wordsworth, Sarah Hazlitt and the anonymous female author of A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland. It further examines the specific ways in which those women represented themselves and their travels and looks at the relationship of gender to travel writing, relating that to issues of production and reception as well as to questions of discourse.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Tourists and Travellers: Women's Non-fictional Writing about Scotland 1770-1830
Chapter Two: The Growth of English Tourism in Scotland in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Chapter Three: Travelling to Criticise: A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland
Chapter Four: 'Every Thing Worth Seeing': Sarah Murray's Companion and Useful Guide
Chapter Five: Anne Grant of Laggan and the Myth of the Highlands
Chapter Six: From Traveller to Tourist: Dorothy Wordsworth's Two Scottish Tours
Chapter Seven: Interrupting the Aesthetic: Sarah Hazlitt's Journal
Chapter Eight: Epilogue: From Individual Travel to Mass Tourism, Scotland 1770-1830
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