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

Informationen zum Autor William H. A. Williams is professor of history at Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has published widely on Irish history and culture, including the award-winning 'Twas Only an Irishman' s Dream: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800-1920. Klappentext British tourists in Ireland in the 18th and 19th centuries were both charmed and repulsed. The Ireland they experienced did not fit their British sense of progress, propriety, and Protestantism. This work provides the moral judgments British observers made about the Irish countryside and its native inhabitants. Zusammenfassung British tourists in Ireland in the 18th and 19th centuries were both charmed and repulsed. The Ireland they experienced did not fit their British sense of progress! propriety! and Protestantism. This work provides the moral judgments British observers made about the Irish countryside and its native inhabitants.

Product details

• Authors: W.H.A. Williams, William Williams
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2008
• EAN: 9780299225209
• ISBN: 978-0-299-22520-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora
• Subject: Travel > Travel guides > Europe