{"product_id":"curious-travellers-writing-the-welsh-tour-1760-1820","title":"Curious Travellers Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820","description":"\u003cp\u003eCurious 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 sites\n\u003cbr\u003eand 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\n\u003cbr\u003eshaped understanding of Wales and Welshness within the wider British polity. Wales became a popular destination for visitors following the publication of Thomas Pennant's 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 industrial\n\u003cbr\u003epresent, 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\n\u003cbr\u003einterface of literature and history, arguing for its vital importance to broader cultural and environmental studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46059140907246,"sku":"9780198852124","price":192.02,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198852124.jpg?v=1736491881","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/curious-travellers-writing-the-welsh-tour-1760-1820","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}