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- catalog abstract "The Beaten Track is a major study of European Tourism during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It draws on a wide variety of sources from high literature and travel writing to periodicals and guidebooks to reveal an important current in the history of the modern concept of 'culture', in both popular and elite forms. James Buzard demonstrates that a view of Continental tourism as open to virtually all classes came to dominate the British and American travelling imagination in this period - a process encouraged by the activities of travel popularizers like Thomas Cook, John Murray III, and the Baedekers. One consequence was a powerful distinction between the 'true traveller' and the 'mere tourist'. The influence of this opposition on nineteenth-century culture - and on the emerging idea of culture - is traced by Buzard in the writings of many authors, including Wordsworth, Dickens, Frances Trollope, Ruskin, Anna Jameson, Henry James, and E.M. Forster, as well as in periodicals from Punch to Blackwood's Magazine. 'Authentic culture' was to be found in the secret precincts off tourism's beaten track, where it could be discovered only by the sensitive traveller, not the vulgar tourist. This elegantly written study engages with debates in cultural studies concerning the ideology of leisure. For Buzard, tourism's apparent combination of both popular accessibility and exclusivity allows it to stand as an especially revealing instance of modern cultural practice.".
- catalog contributor b3838754.
- catalog coverage "English-speaking countries Intellectual life 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "Europe In literature.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Civilization European influences.".
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization European influences.".
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [338]-351) and index.".
- catalog description "The Beaten Track is a major study of European Tourism during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It draws on a wide variety of sources from high literature and travel writing to periodicals and guidebooks to reveal an important current in the history of the modern concept of 'culture', in both popular and elite forms. James Buzard demonstrates that a view of Continental tourism as open to virtually all classes came to dominate the British and American travelling imagination in this period - a process encouraged by the activities of travel popularizers like Thomas Cook, John Murray III, and the Baedekers. One consequence was a powerful distinction between the 'true traveller' and the 'mere tourist'. The influence of this opposition on nineteenth-century culture - and on the emerging idea of culture - is traced by Buzard in the writings of many authors, including Wordsworth, Dickens, Frances Trollope, Ruskin, Anna Jameson, Henry James, and E.M. Forster, as well as in periodicals from Punch to Blackwood's Magazine. 'Authentic culture' was to be found in the secret precincts off tourism's beaten track, where it could be discovered only by the sensitive traveller, not the vulgar tourist. This elegantly written study engages with debates in cultural studies concerning the ideology of leisure. For Buzard, tourism's apparent combination of both popular accessibility and exclusivity allows it to stand as an especially revealing instance of modern cultural practice.".
- catalog description "Tourist and traveller in the network of nineteenth-century travel -- Tourism and anti-tourism : conventions and strategies -- A scripted continent : British and American travel-writers in Europe, c.1825-1875 -- Ambivalent appropriations : culture and the tourist in James -- Forster's trespasses : tourism and cultural politics.".
- catalog extent "xii, 357 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Beaten track.".
- catalog identifier "0198112955".
- catalog identifier "0198122764 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Beaten track.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Beaten track.".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries Intellectual life 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Europe In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Europe".
- catalog spatial "Europe.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Civilization European influences.".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization European influences.".
- catalog subject "910.4/1/09034 20".
- catalog subject "American literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Americans Europe History.".
- catalog subject "Americans Travel Europe Historiography.".
- catalog subject "British Europe History.".
- catalog subject "British Travel Europe Historiography.".
- catalog subject "English literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR129.E85 B89 1992".
- catalog subject "PR129.E85 B89 1993".
- catalog subject "Tourism Europe History.".
- catalog subject "Travelers Europe History.".
- catalog subject "Travelers Europe.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Tourist and traveller in the network of nineteenth-century travel -- Tourism and anti-tourism : conventions and strategies -- A scripted continent : British and American travel-writers in Europe, c.1825-1875 -- Ambivalent appropriations : culture and the tourist in James -- Forster's trespasses : tourism and cultural politics.".
- catalog title "The beaten track : European tourism, literature, and the ways to culture, 1800-1918 / James Buzard.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".