Curious Travellers
Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 July 2024
- ISBN 9780198852124
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 240x160x23 mm
- Weight 716 g
- Language English 577
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Short description:
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.
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Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 provides the first extensive literary 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. Opening with an overview of Welsh tours up to the early 1700s, Mary-Ann Constantine shows how the intensely intertextual nature of the genre imbued particular sites and locations with meaning. She next draws upon a range of manuscript and published sources to trace a 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.
Wales became a popular destination for visitors following the publication of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Wales in the late 1770s. Hundreds of travel-accounts from the period 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, Constantine explores the full potential of tour writing as an idiosyncratic genre at the interface of literature and history, arguing for its vital importance to broader cultural and environmental studies.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Bibliographical Note on Thomas Pennant's A Tour in Wales
Introduction: Reflections on Water
Travel Writing in Wales, 1188--1700
Lines and Languages: Dee Crossings and Offa's Dyke
A Journey out of London, 1802: Iolo Morganwg Walks Home
?That Strange Bridge?: Wye Valley Connections
Consumed Landscapes: Coal, Fire, and Water
Visionary Journeys: Quests, Pilgrimages, and Gatherings
Attempts to Describe Hafod
Capturing the Castle: Vulnerable Coasts in the Late 1790s
Elen of the Roads: Incursions and Excursions in the Mountains of North Wales
?In this state of darkness and illusion?: Cotton, Copper, and Commerce
Conclusion: Return to the Lakes; or, New Ways with Old Roads
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