The Englishman's England. Taste, travel and the rise of tourism
Details:
- Author(s) Ousby, Ian
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1990
- Pages 209pp
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Traces the development of leisure travel within England largely in the 18th and 19th centuries focusing on four types of destination - 'literary shrines'; 'country houses'; 'picturesque ruins'; 'natural landscapes' and not purpose built attractions - and reviewing this largely in terms of 'the appetites that have prompted tourism, the assumptions that have shaped its form and the mentality that has resulted' more than the economic (transport) and social influences on it. Has chapters: 'Literary shrines and literary pilgrims - the writer as tourist attraction'; 'Envious show - the opening of the country house'; 'A proper state of decay - ruins and ruin-hunters'; 'Rash assault - nature and the nature of tourism'