Keith Hanley

Constructing Cultural Tourism

John Ruskin and the Tourist Gaze

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This book is an interdisciplinary collaboration between a literary critic and cultural historian, which examines and recovers a radical and still urgent challenge to the industrialisation of cultural tourism from the work of John Ruskin. Ruskin exerted a formative influence on the definition and development of cultural tourism which was probably as significant as that, for example, of his contemporary Thomas Cook. The book assesses Ruskin's overall influence on the development of national and international tourism in the context of pre-existing expectations about tourism flows and cultural capital and alongside parallel and intersecting trend… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Walton, John K.

ISBN: 978-1-84541-206-7
EAN: 9781845412067
Produktnummer: 13931011
Verlag: Channel View Publications
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 10'340 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Keith Hanley is Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University where he directed the former Ruskin Centre for eight years. He has written monographs on Wordsworth and Ruskin, has edited many essay collections on nineteenth-century indisciplinarity, including, with Greg Kucich, Nineteenth-Century Worlds: Global Formations Past and Present (Routledge, 2008), and co-edits, with David Thomas, the quarterly journal Nineteenth-Century Contexts.