The Beaten Track
European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to `Culture', 1800-1918
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 4 March 1993
- ISBN 9780198122760
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages370 pages
- Size 235x156x23 mm
- Weight 632 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 pp plates 0
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Short description:
A major study of European tourism during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Writers considered include Byron, Wordsworth, Frances Trollope, Dickens, Henry James, and Forster.
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The Beaten Track is a major study of European tourism during the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century.
James Buzard demonstrates the ways in which the distinction between tourist and traveller has developed and how the circulation of the two terms influenced how nineteenth and twentieth-century writers on Europe viewed themselves and presented themselves in writing. Drawing upon a wide range of texts from literature, travel writing, guidebooks, periodicals, and business histories, the book shows how a democratizing and institutionalizing tourism gave rise to new formulations about what constitutes `authentic' cultural experience. Authentic culture was represented as being in the secret precincts of the `beaten track' where it could be discovered only by the sensitive true traveller and not the vulgar tourist.
Major writers such as Byron, Wordsworth, Frances Trollope, Dickens, Henry James, and Forster are examined in the light of the influential Murray and Baedeker guide books.
This elegantly written book draws links with debates in cultural studies concerning the ideology of leisure and concludes that in this period tourism became an exemplary cultural practice appearing to be both popularly accessible and exclusive.
`The Beaten Track' is the best book I know that deals with the phenomenon in nineteenth-century Britain and America. ... This is a book that everyone interested in ninetheenth-century and modern British and American culture should read.
