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From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the role of home tourism in the UK and Ireland in the development of national identities and commercial culture.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Home Tourism; B.Colbert Peripheral Vision, Landscape and Nation-Building in Thomas Pennant´s Tours of Scotland 1769-1772; P.Smethurst Beside the Seaside: Mary Morgan´s Tour to Milford Haven, in the Year 1791; Z.Kinsley ´Ancient and Present´: Charles Heath of Monmouth and the Historical and Descriptive Accounts...of Tintern Abbey 1793-1828; C.S.Matheson Britain through Foreign Eyes: Early Nineteenth-Century Home Tourism in Translation; B.Colbert The Attractions of England, or Albion under German Eyes; J.Borm The Irish Tour, 1800-1850; W.H.A.Williams ´Missions of Benevolence´: Tourism and Charity on Nineteenth-Century Iona; K.Haldane Grenier Holiday Excursions to Scott Country; N.J.Watson ´Every hill has its history, every region its romance´: Travellers´ Constructions of Wales, 1837-1911; K.Gramich Famine Travel: Irish Tourism from the Great Famine to Decolonization; S.Thompson Meeting Kate Kearney at Killarney: Performances of the Touring Subject, 1850-1914; K.J.James ´The romance of the road´: Narratives of Motoring in England, 1896-1930; E.Coulbert Home Truths: Language, Slowness, and Microspection; M.Cronin Bibliography Index

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´This well-conceived collection fills a definite gap in the existing scholarly literature; it will be a useful starting point for anyone interested in the British home tour.´ - Carl Thompson, Lecturer in English, Nottingham Trent University, UK

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JAN BORM Professor of British Literature, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France ESME COULBERT AHRC sponsored doctoral student, Nottingham Trent University, UK MICHAEL CRONIN Full Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dublin City University, Ireland KATIE GRAMICH Reader in English Literature, Cardiff University, UK KATHERINE HALDANE GRENIER Professor of History, The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, USA K. J. JAMES Associate Professor of History, University of Guelph, Canada ZOE KINSLEY Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Liverpool Hope University, UK C. S. MATHESON Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Windsor, Canada PAUL SMETHURST Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong SPURGEON THOMPSON Lecturer, CTL College, Limassol, Cyprus NICOLA J. WATSON Senior Lecturer in Literature, Open University, UK WILLIAM H. A. WILLIAMS Independent scholar

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