Touring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Date of Publication 24 March 2022
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781501384615
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 228x152x18 mm
- Weight 520 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 colour and 40 bw illus 273
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Long description:
Over the course of the long 18th century, many of England's grandest country houses became known for displaying noteworthy architecture and design, large collections of sculptures and paintings, and expansive landscape gardens and parks. Although these houses continued to function as residences and spaces of elite retreat, they had powerful public identities. Increasingly accessible to tourists, and extensively described by travel writers, they began to be celebrated as sites of great importance to national culture. Touring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century examines how these identities emerged, repositioning the importance of country houses in 18th-century Britain and exploring what it took to turn them into tourist attractions.
Drawing on travel books, guidebooks, and dozens of tourists' diaries and letters, it explores what it meant to tour country houses such as Blenheim Palace, Chatsworth, Wilton, Kedleston and Burghley in the tumultuous 1700s. It also questions the legacies of these early tourists: both as a critical cultural practice in the 18th century, and an extraordinary and controversial influence in British culture today, country-house tourism is a topic of rich debate for students, scholars and patrons of the heritage sector.
Table of Contents:
List of Plates
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: 'Come Here for Entertainment and Instruction': Country Houses Exhibited to the Public
1. 'For the Numerous Strangers Who Visit': Tourists' Itineraries and Practices
2. 'A Sumptuous Pile of Building': Remaking the Sights and Spaces of the House
3. 'Eminent in Public Estimation': The Transformation of Country Houses' Paintings and Sculptures
4. 'A Degree of Taste and Elegance': Commenting on Country Houses' Interiors
5. 'The Beauties of Nature': Descriptions of Country-House Gardens and Parks
Conclusion: 'The Visitor of Today': Legacies of 18th-Century Country-House Tourism
Appendix: Country-house Guidebooks
Bibliography
Index
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