ABSTRACT
Eighteenth-century Britain’s status as an island, it has been argued, facilitated the development and articulation of a coherent sense of nationhood, bolstered by the notion that whatever divisions existed internally (both at the level of region and country), the difference of the nations beyond the island was much greater.1 By the late eighteenth century a touristic infrastructure was being established in Britain which assisted the articulation of national character, yet instead of promoting Britishness as a coherent and united identity, it placed emphasis on the foreignness of much home tour experience and accentuated regional difference, therefore complicating the way in which we read British nationhood at this time.
