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Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770-1914 - Creating Caledonia (Paperback)
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Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770-1914 - Creating Caledonia (Paperback)
Series: Studies in European Cultural Transition
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In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, legions of English
citizens headed north. Why and how did Scotland, once avoided by
travelers, become a popular site for English tourists? In Tourism
and Identity in Scotland, 1770-1914, Katherine Haldane Grenier uses
published and unpublished travel accounts, guidebooks, and the
popular press to examine the evolution of the idea of Scotland.
Though her primary subject is the cultural significance of Scotland
for English tourists, in demonstrating how this region came to
occupy a central role in the Victorian imagination, Grenier also
sheds light on middle-class popular culture, including anxieties
over industrialization, urbanization, and political change;
attitudes towards nature; nostalgia for the past; and racial and
gender constructions of the "other." Late eighteenth-century
visitors to Scotland may have lauded the momentum of modernization
in Scotland, but as the pace of economic, social, and political
transformations intensified in England during the nineteenth
century, English tourists came to imagine their northern neighbor
as a place immune to change. Grenier analyzes the rhetoric of
tourism that allowed visitors to adopt a false view of Scotland as
untouched by the several transformations of the nineteenth century,
making journeys there antidotes to the uneasiness of modern life.
While this view was pervasive in Victorian society and culture, and
deeply marked the modern Scottish national identity, Grenier
demonstrates that it was not hegemonic. Rather, the variety of ways
that Scotland and the Scots spoke for themselves often challenged
tourists' expectations.
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