1st Edition
Journeys in Ireland Literary Travellers, Rural Landscapes, Cultural Relations
By Martin Ryle
Copyright 1999
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume offers a reasoned critical account of a wide range of travel writing about rural Ireland. The focus is on work by English travellers who visited Ireland for pleasure, from the ’scenic tourists’ of the post-Romantic period to Eric Newby in the 1980s. Ryle also discusses accounts by American and English anthropologists, as well as writing by Irish authors including J.M. Synge, George... Read more
Contents: Acknowledgements; List of maps; Prospects and perspectives; Knowledge, amusement and unprofitable tours; Ethnographers, travellers and ’decline’ in the West; Into the West; ’There is no country in England’; Peddling the national landscape; ’A house behind a wall’; Border crossings; An idyll?; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Martin Ryle
'Ryle’s book is a wide-ranging review of the literature of English and some Irish travellers and tourists in Ireland. It is...always interesting, and demonstrates a keen sense of the literature on representation of Irish place and identity.'Ecumene
