Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 by Mary-Ann Constantine Ha

Description: Curious Travellers by Mary-Ann Constantine Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Mary-Ann Constantine provides a literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c. 1760-1820). Examining the history of the genre as well as how such accounts shaped understanding of Wales and Welshness within the wider British polity of the period, Constantine shows their continued relevance to cultural and environmental studies. Publisher Description Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 provides the first extensive literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c.1760-1820). It examines writers responses to Welsh landscapes and communities at a time of drastic economic, environmental, and political change. Opening with an overview of Welsh tours up to the early 1700s, Mary-Ann Constantine shows how the intensely intertextual nature of the genre imbued particular sitesand locations with meaning. She next draws upon a range of manuscript and published sources to trace a circular tour of the country, unpicking moments of cultural entanglement and revealing how travel-writingshaped understanding of Wales and Welshness within the wider British polity. Wales became a popular destination for visitors following the publication of Thomas Pennants Tours in Wales in the late 1770s. Hundreds of travel-accounts from the period are extant, yet few (particularly those by women) have been studied in depth. Wales proves, in these narratives, as much a place of disturbance as a picturesque haven--a potent mixture of medieval past and industrialpresent, exposed down its west coast to the threat of invasion during the Napoleonic Wars. From castles to copper-mines, Constantine explores the full potential of tour writing as an idiosyncratic genre at theinterface of literature and history, arguing for its vital importance to broader cultural and environmental studies. Author Biography Mary-Ann Constantine is Professor at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. She studies the literature and history of Romantic-period Wales and Brittany, and holds particular interests in travel writing and in the cultural politics of Britain and Ireland in the 1790s. She has led several major funded research projects and has written on Romantic-era literary forgery, narrative song, Welsh responses to the FrenchRevolution, the British home tour and the travels of naturalist and antiquarian Thomas Pennant. Details ISBN 0198852126 ISBN-13 9780198852124 Title Curious Travellers Author Mary-Ann Constantine Format Hardcover Year 2024 Pages 336 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:168373397; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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