Constructing Cultural Tourism
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Constructing Cultural Tourism

John Ruskin and the Tourist Gaze

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Constructing Cultural Tourism

John Ruskin and the Tourist Gaze

About this book

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 trends of the time; examines Ruskin's contribution to the tourist agenda at all social levels; and discusses Ruskin's significance for current debates in tourism studies, especially questions of the place of the 'canon' of traditional European cultural tourism in a post-modern tourist setting, and the various incarnations of 'heritage tourism'.

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Table of contents

  1. Coverpage
  2. Series Editors
  3. Titlepage
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 Introduction: The Joy of Travel
  9. 2 The Ruskin Moment
  10. 3 Sightseeing with Ruskin
  11. 4 The Interpretation of Places
  12. 5 Ruskin and Tourist Destinations
  13. 6 Ruskin and Popular Tourism
  14. 7 Ruskin and Brantwood
  15. 8 Conclusion
  16. Index