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Touring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
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Touring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
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Total price: R955
Discovery Miles: 9 550
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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.
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