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William Wordsworth and Modern Travel - Railways, Motorcars and the Lake District, 1830-1940 (Paperback)
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William Wordsworth and Modern Travel - Railways, Motorcars and the Lake District, 1830-1940 (Paperback)
Series: Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850, 12
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This book explores Wordsworth's extraordinary influence on the
tourist landscapes of the Lake District throughout the age of
railways, motorcars and the First World War. It reveals how
Wordsworth's response to railways was not a straightforward matter
of opposition and protest; his ideas were taken up by both
advocates and opponents of railways, and through their
controversies had a surprising impact on the earliest motorists as
they sought a language to describe the liberty and independence of
their new mode of transport. Once the age of motoring was underway,
the outbreak of the First World War encouraged British people to
connect Wordsworth's patriotic passion with his wish to protect the
Lake District as a national heritage - a transition that would have
momentous effects in the interwar period, when popular motoring
paradoxically brought a vogue for open-air activities and a renewal
of romantic pedestrianism. With the arrival of global tourism,
preservation of the cultural landscape of the Lake District became
an urgent national and international concern. This book explores
how patterns of tourist behaviour and environmental awareness
changed in the century of popular tourism, examining how
Wordsworth's vision and language shaped modern ideas of travel,
self-reliance, landscape and environment, cultural heritage,
preservation and accessibility.
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