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The tourist's gaze : travellers to Ireland, 1800-2000 / edited by Glenn Hooper.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travelers.
- History.
- Ireland--Description and travel.
- Ireland.
- Travelers--Ireland--History--19th century.
- Travelers--Ireland--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 268 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- Travel literature has been described by Jonathan Raban as "literature's red-light district." It defies peoples' beliefs, confuses expectations, crosses disciplinary boundaries and is linked to ethnography, journalism and biography. Yet for all that has managed to remain not only a visible but also an increasingly popular literary genre. This anthology makes an entertaining and insightful contribution to this engaging field. It includes extracts from well known writers, such as Thackeray, Boll and Chesterton, but also presents less familiar figures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1859182771
- 1859183239
- OCLC:
- 45873608
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