Travel writing and tourism in Britain and Ireland / edited by Benjamin Colbert.

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From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the role of home tourism in the UK and Ireland in the development of national identities and commercial culture.

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JAN BORM Professor of British Literature, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, FranceESME COULBERT AHRC sponsored doctoral student, Nottingham Trent University, UKMICHAEL CRONIN Full Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dublin City University, IrelandKATIE GRAMICH Reader in English Literature, Cardiff University, UKKATHERINE HALDANE GRENIER Professor of History, The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, USAK. J. JAMES Associate Professor of History, University of Guelph, CanadaZOE KINSLEY Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Liverpool Hope University, UKC. S. MATHESON Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Windsor, CanadaPAUL SMETHURST Associate Professor, University of Hong KongSPURGEON THOMPSON Lecturer, CTL College, Limassol, CyprusNICOLA J. WATSON Senior Lecturer in Literature, Open University, UKWILLIAM H. A. WILLIAMS Independent scholar