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Benjamin Colbert (ed.), Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. xii + 264. £50 / $85 hardback. 7980230251083.

Benjamin Colbert (ed.), Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland (Basingstoke: Palgrave... Reviews Benjamin Colbert (ed.), Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. xii + 264. £50 / $85 hardback. 7980230251083. The spatial turn in the Humanities continues, with fresh work emerging on the intersections of books and places, politics and travel practices, local identities and transport revolutions, landscapes and human geographies, physical restraints and imaginative possibilities. In Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland, Benjamin Colbert has assembled a group of essays nearly as broad and wide-ranging as his title suggests. `The privilege of an essay collection is to take a wider prospect', he writes in the introduction, and indeed, topics visited include early seaside getaways and romantic mountains, Scottish literary rambles and the rise of motorcar touring, faux travel memoirs and West-Irish infrastructure, tourist voyeurism and tourist charity. Arranged chronologically, most of the essays engage either the late eighteenth century or the nineteenth century, though a few extend the book's inquiry into the years of the World Wars. This periodisation is sensible and coherent ­ most travel historians see something like modern tourism emerging in Britain around 1750, accelerating in the following decades (especially during the Wars with France, which kept http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Romanticism Edinburgh University Press

Benjamin Colbert (ed.), Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. xii + 264. £50 / $85 hardback. 7980230251083.

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Romanticism , Volume 20 (1): 84 – Apr 1, 2014
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Reviews Benjamin Colbert (ed.), Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. xii + 264. £50 / $85 hardback. 7980230251083. The spatial turn in the Humanities continues, with fresh work emerging on the intersections of books and places, politics and travel practices, local identities and transport revolutions, landscapes and human geographies, physical restraints and imaginative possibilities. In Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland, Benjamin Colbert has assembled a group of essays nearly as broad and wide-ranging as his title suggests. `The privilege of an essay collection is to take a wider prospect', he writes in the introduction, and indeed, topics visited include early seaside getaways and romantic mountains, Scottish literary rambles and the rise of motorcar touring, faux travel memoirs and West-Irish infrastructure, tourist voyeurism and tourist charity. Arranged chronologically, most of the essays engage either the late eighteenth century or the nineteenth century, though a few extend the book's inquiry into the years of the World Wars. This periodisation is sensible and coherent ­ most travel historians see something like modern tourism emerging in Britain around 1750, accelerating in the following decades (especially during the Wars with France, which kept

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