Tourism, land, and landscape in Ireland: the commodification of culture

'This study, exploring a broad range of evocative Irish travel writing from 1850 to 1914, much of it highly entertaining and heavily laced with irony and humour, draws out interplays between tourism, travel literature and commodifications of culture. It focuses on the importance of informal tou...

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Main Author: James, Kevin J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York [u.a.] Routledge 2014
Edition:1. publ.
Series:Routledge research in travel writing 9
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:'This study, exploring a broad range of evocative Irish travel writing from 1850 to 1914, much of it highly entertaining and heavily laced with irony and humour, draws out interplays between tourism, travel literature and commodifications of culture. It focuses on the importance of informal tourist economies, illicit dimensions of tourism, national landscapes, 'legend' and invented tradition in modern tourism" ..
Physical Description:XIV, 208 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:9780415713559

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