Mary-Ann Constantine

Curious Travellers (eBook, ePUB)

Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192593054
• Artikelnr.: 72285131

Autorenporträt

Mary-Ann Constantine is Professor at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. She studies the literature and history of Romantic-period Wales and Brittany, and holds particular interests in travel writing and in the cultural politics of Britain and Ireland in the 1790s. She has led several major funded research projects and has written on Romantic-era literary forgery, narrative song, Welsh responses to the French Revolution, the British 'home tour' and the travels of naturalist and antiquarian Thomas Pennant.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Figures
* Bibliographical Note on Thomas Pennant's A Tour in Wales
* Introduction: Reflections on Water
* 1: Travel Writing in Wales, 1188--1700
* 2: Lines and Languages: Dee Crossings and Offa's Dyke
* 3: A Journey out of London, 1802: Iolo Morganwg Walks Home
* 4: 'That Strange Bridge': Wye Valley Connections
* 5: Consumed Landscapes: Coal, Fire, and Water
* 6: Visionary Journeys: Quests, Pilgrimages, and Gatherings
* 7: Attempts to Describe Hafod
* 8: Capturing the Castle: Vulnerable Coasts in the Late 1790s
* 9: Elen of the Roads: Incursions and Excursions in the Mountains of
North Wales
* 10: 'In this state of darkness and illusion': Cotton, Copper, and
Commerce
* Conclusion: Return to the Lakes; or, New Ways with Old Roads
* Bibliography
* Index