Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770–1914
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British travel narratives
Caledonian Canal
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Culloden Moor
English perceptions of Scotland
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Express Train
Highland Dress
Highland Games
Highland representation
Highland Tour
ILN
Late Eighteenth Century Visitors
Loch Awe
Loch Coruisk
Loch Katrine
Loch Lomond
Lord Breadalbane
Middle Class World View
national identity formation
Nineteenth Century Countries
nineteenth-century tourism studies
Scot
Scotland's Past
Scotland's Scenery
Scotland’s Past
Scotland’s Scenery
Scottish History
Scottish Past
Scottish Sightseers
Scottish Tourist Board
social change and modernity
Victorian cultural history
West Highland Railway
World Class Golf Courses
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138266377
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 May 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 In Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770-1914, Katherine Haldane Grenier uses published and unpublished travel accounts, guidebooks, and the popular press to examine the evolution of the idea of Scotland.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.
Katherine Haldane Grenier is an Associate Professor of History at The Citadel, Military College of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
