{"product_id":"curious-travellers-writing-the-welsh-tour-1760-1820-9780198852124","title":"Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820","description":"\u003cem\u003eCurious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820\u003c\/em\u003e 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 sites and 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-writing shaped understanding of Wales and Welshness within the wider British polity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWales became a popular destination for visitors following the publication of Thomas Pennant's \u003cem\u003eTours in Wales\u003c\/em\u003e 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 industrial present, 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 the interface of literature and history, arguing for its vital importance to broader cultural and environmental studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary-Ann Constantine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.6lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.41w x 0.99d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198852124","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738078687369,"sku":"9780198852124","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_a3235b21-06d8-47ef-815d-67f984241d46.jpg?v=1792521883","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/curious-travellers-writing-the-welsh-tour-1760-1820-9780198852124","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}