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table of contents
Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The British and Irish archipelago in historical and literary studies
- Atlantic Isles
- Locating the west in time and space
- Infrastructure, enchantment, performance, identity
- Notes
- Part I Infrastructure
- 1. Infrastructure and tourism in the west
- Cornwall
- North Wales
- Western Connacht
- Skye
- Modern tourism in the west
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Part II Enchantment
- 2. The westward gaze – elusive islands
- The westward gaze
- Hy Brasil
- Tír na nÓg
- Notes
- 3. The westward gaze – sunken lands
- Cantre’r Gwaelod
- Lyonesse
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Part III Performance
- 4. Performing travel
- Escaping the beaten track
- Moving through the landscape
- The historical imagination
- Danger and misadventure
- Interactions between hosts and guests
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 5. Looking back – modernity and the west
- Part IV Identity
- Industry, poverty and the language of improvement
- Degeneration at the fin-de-siècle
- Escaping mass society
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 6. Layers of Britishness
- The geological imagination
- ‘Built from a north-western foundation’
- Racial ‘strata’
- ‘The great human drift’
- Finding specimens in the field
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 7. Varieties of Britishness
- Iberian Home Rule
- British national character
- Centuries of conflict and union
- Narratives of union
- Narratives of hope
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Conclusion – Atlantic Isles
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Primary sources
- Guidebooks
- Travel writing
- Other primary source material
- Periodicals, journals, magazines
- Newspapers
- Official publications
- Website
- Secondary literature
- Index