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William Wordsworth and the Invention of Tourism, 1820-1900

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William Wordsworth and the Invention of Tourism, 1820-1900 book

William Wordsworth and the Invention of Tourism, 1820-1900

DOI link for William Wordsworth and the Invention of Tourism, 1820-1900

William Wordsworth and the Invention of Tourism, 1820-1900 book

BySaeko Yoshikawa
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 17 February 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547107
Pages 280 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315547107
SubjectsLanguage & Literature, Tourism, Hospitality and Events
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Yoshikawa, S. (2014). William Wordsworth and the Invention of Tourism, 1820-1900. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547107

In her study of the opening of the English Lake District to mass tourism, Saeko Yoshikawa examines William Wordsworth’s role in the rise and development of the region as a popular destination. For the middle classes on holiday, guidebooks not only offered practical information, but they also provided a fresh motive and a new model of appreciation by associating writers with places. The nineteenth century saw the invention of Robert Burns’s and Walter Scott’s Borders, Shakespeare’s Stratford, and the Brontë Country as holiday locales for the middle classes. Investigating the international cult of Wordsworthian tourism, Yoshikawa shows both how Wordsworth’s public celebrity was constructed through the tourist industry and how the cultural identity of the Lake District was influenced by the poet’s presence and works. Informed by extensive archival work, her book provides an original case study of the contributions of Romantic writers to the invention of middle-class tourism and the part guidebooks played in promoting the popular reputations of authors.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

‘A Continuous Force’
WithSaeko Yoshikawa

chapter 1|34 pages

Through a Painter’s Eyes: An 1850 Wordsworth Album

WithSaeko Yoshikawa

part I|47 pages

Wordsworth in the Guides

chapter 2|26 pages

From Picturesque to Poetic: Wordsworth in the Guides, up to 1850

WithSaeko Yoshikawa

chapter 3|19 pages

Wordsworthian Tourism: Wordsworth in the Guides, from 1850

WithSaeko Yoshikawa

part II|50 pages

Wordsworth’s Four Principal Houses in the Lake District

chapter 4|26 pages

Rydal Mount and Dove Cottage: Opening the Poet’s Gardens

WithSaeko Yoshikawa

chapter 5|22 pages

Cockermouth and Hawkshead: Celebrating the Poet’s Childhood

WithSaeko Yoshikawa

part III|62 pages

The Popular Reception of Wordsworth

chapter 6|22 pages

Reminiscences of Wordsworth

WithSaeko Yoshikawa

chapter 7|29 pages

The Wordsworth Country Illustrated

WithSaeko Yoshikawa

chapter 8|8 pages

By the Lakes: Through the Eyes of a Japanese Wordsworthian Traveller

WithSaeko Yoshikawa
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