Irish Cultures of Travel: Writing on the Continent, 1829-1914 (1st ed. 2016) (New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature)
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- Synopsis
- This book analyses travel texts aimed at the emergent Irish middle classes in the long nineteenth century. Unlike travel writing about Ireland, Irish travel writing about foreign spaces has been under-researched. Drawing on a wide range of neglected material and focusing on selected European destinations, this study draws out the distinctive features of an Irish corpus that often subverts dominant trends in Anglo-Saxon travel writing. As it charts Irish participation in a new ‘mass’ tourism, it shows how that participation led to heated ideological debates in Victorian and Edwardian Irish print culture. Those debates culminate in James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’, which is here re-read through new discursive contextualizations. This book sheds new light on middle-class culture in pre-independence Ireland, and on Ireland’s relation to Europe. The methodology used to define its Irish corpus also makes innovative contributions to the study of travel writing.
- Copyright:
- 2016
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- ISBN-13:
- 9781137567840
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781137567833
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
- Date of Addition:
- 04/10/21
- Copyrighted By:
- laws to Ireland, putting an end to the reprints that Irish firms had found so profitable. The need for national guidelines for Irish travellers that informs the pages of the works by Thomas Davis and Mrs. Mitchell is also an indirect measure of the influen
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- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- This is a copyrighted book.