Curious travellers : writing the Welsh tour, 1760-1820 / Mary-Ann Constantine.

Mary-Ann Constantine provides a literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c. 1760-1820). Examining the history of the genre as well as how such accounts shaped understanding of Wales and Welshness within the wider British polity of the period, Constantine shows their continued...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Constantine, Mary-Ann (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Online Access:Click for online access

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000Mi 4500
001 on1436024516
003 OCoLC
005 20241006213017.0
006 m o d
007 cr |||||||||||
008 240529t20242024enka fob 001 0 eng d
040 |a STBDS  |b eng  |e rda  |e pn  |c STBDS  |d OCLCO  |d OH1  |d EBLCP  |d UPM  |d OCLCQ  |d UKAHL  |d YDX 
020 |a 9780191886645  |q ebook 
020 |a 0191886645 
020 |z 9780198852124  |q print 
024 7 |a 10.1093/9780191886645.001.0001  |2 doi 
035 |a (OCoLC)1436024516 
043 |a e-uk-wl 
050 4 |a PR778.T72  |b C6 2024 
049 |a HCDD 
100 1 |a Constantine, Mary-Ann,  |e author. 
245 1 0 |a Curious travellers :  |b writing the Welsh tour, 1760-1820 /  |c Mary-Ann Constantine. 
264 1 |a Oxford :  |b Oxford University Press,  |c [2024] 
264 4 |c ©2024 
300 |a 1 online resource :  |b illustrations. 
336 |a text  |2 rdacontent 
336 |a still image  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |2 rdacarrier 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 8 |a Mary-Ann Constantine provides a literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c. 1760-1820). Examining the history of the genre as well as how such accounts shaped understanding of Wales and Welshness within the wider British polity of the period, Constantine shows their continued relevance to cultural and environmental studies. 
520 |a Curious Travellers is the first full-length study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c.1760-1820). It examines writers' responses to Welsh landscapes and communities at a time of drastic economic, environmental, and political change. Beginning with an overview of the genre up to the early 1700s, it shows how the intensely intertextual nature of the genre saturated particular sites with meaning. The study then draws on a range of manuscript and published sources to trace its own circular tour of the country, unpicking moments of cultural entanglement and revealing how travel writing shaped understanding of Wales and Welshness within the wider British polity. The country became a popular destination for visitors following the publication of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Wales in the late 1770s: hundreds of travel accounts are extant, yet few (particularly those by women) have been studied in depth. Wales proves, in these narratives, as much a place of disturbance as a picturesque haven, a potent mixture of medieval past and industrial present, exposed down its west coast to the threat of invasion during the Napoleonic wars. From castles to copper mines, Curious Travellers explores the potential of tour writing as an idiosyncratic genre at the interface of literature and history, and argues for its importance to broader cultural and environmental studies. 
521 |a Specialized. 
588 |a Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 29, 2024). 
650 0 |a Travelers' writings, English  |x History and criticism. 
651 0 |a Wales  |x Description and travel. 
650 7 |a Literature: history & criticism.  |2 thema 
650 7 |a Literature.  |2 ukslc 
776 0 8 |i Print version :  |z 9780198852124 
856 4 0 |u https://holycross.idm.oclc.org/login?auth=cas&url=https://academic.oup.com/book/57318  |y Click for online access 
903 |a OUP-SOEBA 
994 |a 92  |b HCD