THE BEATEN TRACK/ EUROPEAN TOURISM, LITERATURE, AND THE WAYS TO "CULTURE", 1800-1918

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 confr ontation 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 t he Britis...[Read more]