The Englishman's England: Taste, Travel and the Rise of Tourism

By Ian Ousby

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521373743
• ISBN13: 9780521373746
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 10.0"