General & Miscellaneous Scottish History, Great Britain - Travel Essays & Descriptions, Travel Essays & Descriptions - General & Miscellaneous, Romanticism, English Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, Tourism - Socia
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Overview
The High Road situates romantic tourism in Scotland by studying texts that richly demonstrate relevant cultural developments and stand out as compelling intersections of history and personality. Six accounts distinguish a span of 100 years during which tourism became the significant feature of modernity that it remains today.
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Uses six travel narratives to demonstrate the construction of modern tourism over the course of the century after the pacification of Scotland. Emphasizes how touring served as a form of inspiration for Romantic writers. Four of the accounts are by English writers for English readers: Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, and John Keats. Contrasted to those are two fictional tours by Scottish writers Tobias Smollett and Walter Scott. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
April 15, 1997
Publisher
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Pages
290
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312161743