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Focusing on the formative influence of the works of John Ruskin in defining and developing cultural tourism, this book describes and assesses their effects on the 'tourist gaze' ('where to go and what to see', and how to see it) as directed at landscape, scenery, architecture and townscape, from the early Victorian period onwards.
Sommario
Chapter One: Introduction: The Joy of Travel Chapter Two: The Ruskin Moment Chapter Three: Sightseeing with Ruskin Chapter Four: The Interpretation of Places Chapter Five: Ruskin and Tourist Destinations Chapter Six: Ruskin and Popular Tourism Chapter Seven: Ruskin and the English Lakes: Brantwood as a Tourist Site Chapter Eight: Concluding Reflections: Ruskin Against the Market
Info autore
Keith Hanley is Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University where he directed the former Ruskin Centre for eight years. He has written monographs on Wordsworth and Ruskin, has edited many essay collections on nineteenth-century indisciplinarity, including, with Greg Kucich, Nineteenth-Century Worlds: Global Formations Past and Present (Routledge, 2008), and co-edits, with David Thomas, the quarterly journal Nineteenth-Century Contexts.
Riassunto
Focusing on the formative influence of the works of John Ruskin in defining and developing cultural tourism, this book describes and assesses their effects on the ‘tourist gaze’ (‘where to go and what to see’, and how to see it) as directed at landscape, scenery, architecture and townscape, from the early Victorian period onwards.
