Beschreibung:
Tourists and Travellers explores the ways in which travel and tourism in Scotland changed during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, focusing on the writings of five women - Sarah Murray, Anne Grant, Dorothy Wordsworth, Sarah Hazlitt and the anonymous author of A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland.
Chapter One: Tourists and travellers: women's non-fictional writing about Scotland 1770-1830 Chapter Two: The growth of English tourism in Scotland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Chapter Three: Travelling to criticise: A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland Chapter Four: 'Every Thing Worth Seeing': Sarah Murray's Companion and Useful Guide Chapter Five: Anne Grant of Laggan and the myth of the Highlands Chapter Six: From traveller to tourist: Dorothy Wordsworth's two Scottish tours Chapter Seven: Interrupting the aesthetic: Sarah Hazlitt's Journal Chapter Eight: Epilogue: From individual travel to mass tourism, Scotland 1770-1830