Raphaël Ingelbien, Irish Cultures of Travel. Writing on the Continent, 1829-1914 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
Irish Cultures of Travel analyses travel texts aimed at the emergent Irish middle classes in the long nineteenth century. Unlike travel writing about Ireland, Irish travel writing about foreign spaces has been under-researched. Drawing on a wide range of neglected material and focusing on selected European destinations, this study draws out the distinctive features of an Irish corpus that often subverts dominant trends in Anglo-Saxon travel writing. As it charts Irish participation in a new ‘mass’ tourism, it shows how that participation led to heated ideological debates in Victorian and Edwardian Irish print culture. Those debates culminate in James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’, which is here re-read through new discursive contextualizations. This book sheds new light on middle-class culture in pre-independence Ireland, and on Ireland’s relation to Europe. The methodology used to define its Irish corpus also makes innovative contributions to the study of travel writing.
“Refreshingly jargon-free, international and interdisciplinary in scope, Ingelbien’s reader-orientated approach to Irish travels is well-substantiated, thoughtful and convincing, while his focus on public discourse broadens considerably our understanding of periodical literature. Quite simply, this is an innovative and scholarly text, and the blend of historical, biographical and textual analysis will not only secure its position within the field of Irish Studies, or Travel and Tourism cultures, but within interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies more generally.” (Glenn Hooper, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK)
For more information, see:
http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137567833
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-56784-0
https://books.google.be/books?isbn=1137567848
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