Author: Wilson ArmisteadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Tales and Legends of the English Lakes and Mountains
Author: Wilson ArmisteadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Tales and Legends of the English Lakes
Author: Wilson ArmisteadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Classic of Mountains and Seas
Author: Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140447194
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This major source of Chinese mythology (third century BC to second century AD) contains a treasure trove of rare data and colorful fiction about the mythical figures, rituals, medicine, natural history, and ethnic peoples of the ancient world. The Classic of Mountains and Seas explores 204 mythical figures such as the gods Foremost, Fond Care, and Yellow, and goddesses Queen Mother of the West and Girl Lovely, as well as many other figures unknown outside this text. This eclectic Classic also contains crucial information on early medicine (with cures for impotence and infertility), omens to avert catastrophe, and rites of sacrifice, and familiar and unidentified plants and animals. It offers a guided tour of the known world in antiquity, moving outwards from the famous mountains of central China to the lands “beyond the seas.” Translated with an introduction and notes by Anne Birrell.
William Wordsworth and the Invention of Tourism, 1820-1900
Author: Saeko YoshikawaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134767994
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
In her study of the opening of the English Lake District to mass tourism, Saeko Yoshikawa examines William Wordsworth’s role in the rise and development of the region as a popular destination. For the middle classes on holiday, guidebooks not only offered practical information, but they also provided a fresh motive and a new model of appreciation by associating writers with places. The nineteenth century saw the invention of Robert Burns’s and Walter Scott’s Borders, Shakespeare’s Stratford, and the Brontë Country as holiday locales for the middle classes. Investigating the international cult of Wordsworthian tourism, Yoshikawa shows both how Wordsworth’s public celebrity was constructed through the tourist industry and how the cultural identity of the Lake District was influenced by the poet’s presence and works. Informed by extensive archival work, her book provides an original case study of the contributions of Romantic writers to the invention of middle-class tourism and the part guidebooks played in promoting the popular reputations of authors.
A Bibliography of the History and Topography of Cumberland & Westmorland
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Category : Cumberland (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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