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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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William Wordsworth and Modern Travel: Railways, Motorcars and the Lake District, 1830-1940

William Wordsworth and Modern Travel: Railways, Motorcars and the Lake District, 1830-1940

Yoshikawa, Saeko

Hardcover

Series: Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850, Book 12

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ISBN10: 1789621186
ISBN13: 9781789621181
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: May 7 2020
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
This book explores Wordsworth's extraordinary influence on the tourist landscapes of the Lake District throughout the age of railways, motorcars and the First World War. It reveals how Wordsworth's response to railways was not a straightforward matter of opposition and protest; his ideas were taken up by both advocates and opponents of railways, and through their controversies had a surprising impact on the earliest motorists as they sought a language to describe the liberty and independence of their new mode of transport. Once the age of motoring was underway, the outbreak of the First World War encouraged British people to connect Wordsworth's patriotic passion with his wish to protect the Lake District as a national heritage - a transition that would have momentous effects in the interwar period, when popular motoring paradoxically brought a vogue for open-air activities and a renewal of romantic pedestrianism. With the arrival of global tourism, preservation of the cultural

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