The Englishman's England by Ian Ousby

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The Englishman's England by Ian Ousby

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Summary

This fascinating and original study shows that the English tourist industry is not a peculiarly modern creation. Ian Ousby identifies the four types of tourist attraction - literary shrines, country houses, picturesque ruins, and the natural landscape and the tastes that made them objects of fashionable attention in the eighteenth-century.

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The Englishman's England by Ian Ousby

This fascinating and original study shows that the English tourist industry is not a peculiarly modern creation. Concentrating on four types of perennial tourist attraction - literary shrines, country houses, picturesque ruins, and the natural landscape - Ian Ousby identifies the canons of taste that made them objects of fashionable attention in the eighteenth-century, and records how they acquired the trappings of the full-blown tourist attraction. He traces the development not just of an industry but of a state of mind - marked from its earliest days by the haunting fear that tourism spoils and maybe even destroys the very things it most admires. The Englishman's England is highly illustrated throughout.

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ISBN 13 9780521373746
ISBN 10 0521373743
Title The Englishman's England
Author Ian Ousby
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 1990-04-12
Number of pages 258
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.