Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period

Grand Tours

James Watt (University of York), Alison O'Byrne (University of York)

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English

Cambridge University Press
27 March 2025

Diaries, letters & journals; Literary essays; Literary studies: general; Classic travel writing

Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

Even as members of the social elite participated in the European Grand Tour, travellers, writers, and readers increasingly recognized that Britain and Ireland might offer sights and experiences to rival the continent. This collection examines the practice and representation of tourism on 'home' ground during the period when modern Britain was invented and became a powerful and prosperous imperial nation. Interdisciplinary essays explore the diverse variety of tours and tourist agendas – artistic, industrial, leisure, scientific – and they address the ways in which travellers' 'discovery' of Britain and Ireland was an active and often self-critical process that potentially encompassed encounters with the alien and unfamiliar. Considering travellers from the wider world as well as from within Britain and Ireland, contributors discuss the function of comparative reference in contemporary travel-writing, as tourists often thought with and through others as they reflected on the distinctiveness and significance of the sites that they visited.

By: Alison O'Byrne (University of York)
Edited by: James Watt (University of York)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781108842693
ISBN 10: 1108842690
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Pages: 291
Publication Date: 27 March 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

James Watt is Director of the University of York's Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. He is the author of Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre, and Cultural Conflict, 1764–1832 (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and British Orientalisms, 1759–1835 (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and the editor of The Citizen of the World (2024) in the Cambridge University Press edition of the Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Alison O'Byrne is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of York and has published widely on representations of the city in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She is the author of The Art of Walking in Eighteenth-Century London: Representing the City, 1700–1830 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).