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Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland

Colbert edited the book, and contributed a critical introduction, ‘Home Tourism’ (1-12), and a chapter, ‘Britain through Foreign Eyes: Early Nineteenth-Century Home Tourism in Translation’ (68-84). The book brings together leading scholars from France, Canada, Ireland, the UK, and USA, and charts the formation of attitudes to British and Irish tourism with reference to a broad range of writings. Evaluating the perspectives of travellers from the British Isles, as well as visitors from America and Continental Europe, the collection emphasizes the role of peripheries, borders, and regionalism in the construction of gender, class, and national identity.