Irish cultures of travel : writing on the continent,1829-1914

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Irish cultures of travel : writing on the continent,1829-1914

Title remainder

writing on the continent,1829-1914

Statement of responsibility

Raphaël Ingelbien

Creator

• Ingelbien, Raphaël

Subject

• Europe -- Description and travel
• Tourism -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
• Travelers' writings, Irish -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

"This book analyzes 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."--Publisher's description

Member of

• New directions in Irish and Irish American literature

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

New directions in Irish and Irish American literature