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The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to Culture, 1800-1918

The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to Culture, 1800-1918

Buzard, James

Paperback

Series: Economics

Business GeneralGeneral European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0198122764
ISBN13: 9780198122760
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Jun 24 1993
Pages: 370
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.54 Depth: 8.74
Language: English
Taking in a wide variety of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century texts--fiction, poetry, travel writings, guidebooks, periodicals, and business histories--The Beaten Track attempts to grasp what modern representations of culture owe to the long process of confrontation with a democratizing and institutionalizing European tourism. Buzard argues that an exaggerated perception, first emerging after the Napoleonic Wars, of the Continental tour's sudden radical openness to virtually every level of society took firm hold on the British and American travelling imagination--a hold strengthened, over the years, by the visible labors of travel popularizers such as Thomas Cook and professional guidebook publishers such as Murray and Baedeker. One consequence--traceable in sources ranging from Punch and Blackwood's Magazine to writings by Wordsworth, Dickens, Frances Trollope, Ruskin, Anna Jameson, Henry James, Forster, and others--was a new set of formulations of what constitutes authentic culture (in a given place) and genuine cultural experience (in a given person). Accounts of the modern European tour evolved a symbolic economy of practices aimed at distinguishing the true Traveller from the Vulgar Tourist--mainly on the basis of imputed personal merits, not explicit social privileges. Its various forms of anti-tourism helped to make the European tour an exemplary cultural practice of modern liberal democracies, appearing at once popularly accessible and exclusive.

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