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100 1 $aWilliams, W. H. A.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96006745
245 10 $aTourism, landscape, and the Irish character :$bBritish travel writers in pre-famine Ireland /$cWilliam H. A. Williams.
260 $aMadison, Wis. :$bUniversity of Wisconsin Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $axi, 267 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aHistory of Ireland and the Irish diaspora
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-255) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tPicturesque Tourism in Ireland -- $g2.$tHistorical and Religious Landscapes -- $g3.$tPutting Paddy in the Picture -- $g4.$tBritish Tourists and Irish Stereotypes -- $g5.$tTourism and the Semeiotics of Irish Poverty -- $g6.$tIrish Poverty and the Irish Character -- $g7.$tMisreading the Agricultural Landscape -- $g8.$tDiscovering the Moral Landscape -- $g9.$tLandscape, Tourism, and the Imperial Imagination in Connemara.
520 1 $a"Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character draws from more than one hundred accounts by English, Scottish, Welsh, and Anglo-Irish tourists written between 1750 and 1850 to probe the moral judgments British observers made about the Irish countryside and its native inhabitants." "Whether consciously or not, these travel writers defined their own British identity in opposition to a perceived Irish strangeness: the rituals of Catholicism, the seemingly histrionic lamentations of the funeral wake, cemeteries with displays of human bones, the archaic Irish language or the Celtic-infused English that they heard spoken. Overlooking the acute despair in England's own industrial cities, they opined that the poverty, bog lands, and ill-thatched houses of rural Ireland indicated failures of the Irish character." "By the eve of the Famine of the 1840s, travel writers were employing stereotypes of Celtic, Catholic carelessness in the south of Ireland and Saxon neatness and enterprise in predominantly Protestant Ulster, even calling for "Saxon" colonization of the west of Ireland. The Famine cleared the land of many of the peasants, but the western landscape, magnificent in its scenery but poor in its soil, eventually defeated most of the British "colonists," leaving the region to an ever-increasing number of tourists who could enjoy the picturesque mountainscapes without the distracting contradiction of an impoverished populace."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aTravelers' writings, British$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aIreland$xDescription and travel$xHistoriography.
651 0 $aIreland$xHistoriography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009127552
830 0 $aHistory of Ireland and the Irish diaspora.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003092627
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0732/2007011940-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0732/2007011940-d.html
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