Product Description: This collection in the Nineteenth-Century Ireland Series focuses on the ways in which visitors to Ireland -- but also the Irish themselves -- viewed Irish land and landscape. Contents: Francesca Benatti (NUIG), Land and landscape in the Dublin Penny Journal, 1832-3; Maura Cronin (Mary I), Popular ballads in pre-Famine Ireland; Laura Dabundo (Kennesaw State U), Irish landscape in novels by Maria Edgeworth and Sydney Owenson; Susan Egenolf (Texas A & M U), Salvator Rosa and The Wild Irish Girl; Irene Furlong (NUIM), The landscape for all - no penny-in-the-slot at the Giant's Causeway; Andrew J...read more

Product Description: The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the rise of the "Home Tour", with travelers drawn to Scotland, the less explored regions of England and North Wales, and, increasingly, to Ireland. Although an integral part of the United Kingdom from 1800, Ireland represented for many travellers a worryingly unknown entity, politically intractable and unstable, devoutly Catholic, and economically deprived...read more

Product Description: Covering the period from 1770-2000, this collection examines the relationship between landscape and empire by way of a range of literary, historical, and visual matter. Bringing together the work of established as well as emerging scholars, it considers the connections between the mechanics of empire-building, and the way in which landscape was both viewed and imagined...read more

Product Description: Ranging from the early modern to the postcolonial, and dealing mainly with encounters in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, Perspectives on Travel Writing is a collection of new essays by international scholars that examines some of the various contexts of travel writing, as well as its generic characteristics...read more

Product Description: Cutting across geographical boundaries, literary genres and historical periods, Irish and Postcolonial Writing examines the complex, sometimes contested legacy of Ireland's postcolonial history. From the Act of Union to the present day, these essays consider how Irish writing responded to the history of colonial contact, in what ways in drew on the experience of other cultures, and how those comparative histories were translated and utilised...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Travel literature has been described by Jonathan Raban as "literature's red-light district". It defies peoples' beliefs, confuses expectations, crosses disciplinary boundaries and is linked to ethnography, journalism and biography...read more