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table of contents
  1. Series
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of figures
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. Part I: Infrastructure
    1. 1. Infrastructure and tourism in the west
  9. Part II: Enchantment
    1. 2. The westward gaze – elusive islands
    2. 3. The westward gaze – sunken lands
  10. Part III: Performance
    1. 4. Performing travel
    2. 5. Looking back – modernity and the west
  11. Part IV: Identity
    1. 6. Layers of Britishness
    2. 7. Varieties of Britishness
  12. Conclusion – Atlantic Isles
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index

Contents

  1. List of figures
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. The British and Irish archipelago in historical and literary studies
  5. Atlantic Isles
  6. Locating the west in time and space
  7. Infrastructure, enchantment, performance, identity
  8. Notes
  9. Part I  Infrastructure
  10. 1.  Infrastructure and tourism in the west
  11. Cornwall
  12. North Wales
  13. Western Connacht
  14. Skye
  15. Modern tourism in the west
  16. Conclusion
  17. Notes
  18. Part II  Enchantment
  19. 2.  The westward gaze – elusive islands
  20. The westward gaze
  21. Hy Brasil
  22. Tír na nÓg
  23. Notes
  24. 3.  The westward gaze – sunken lands
  25. Cantre’r Gwaelod
  26. Lyonesse
  27. Conclusion
  28. Notes
  29. Part III  Performance
  30. 4.  Performing travel
  31. Escaping the beaten track
  32. Moving through the landscape
  33. The historical imagination
  34. Danger and misadventure
  35. Interactions between hosts and guests
  36. Conclusion
  37. Notes
  38. 5.  Looking back – modernity and the west
  39. Part IV  Identity
  40. Industry, poverty and the language of improvement
  41. Degeneration at the fin-de-siècle
  42. Escaping mass society
  43. Conclusion
  44. Notes
  45. 6.  Layers of Britishness
  46. The geological imagination
  47. ‘Built from a north-western foundation’
  48. Racial ‘strata’
  49. ‘The great human drift’
  50. Finding specimens in the field
  51. Conclusion
  52. Notes
  53. 7.  Varieties of Britishness
  54. Iberian Home Rule
  55. British national character
  56. Centuries of conflict and union
  57. Narratives of union
  58. Narratives of hope
  59. Conclusion
  60. Notes
  61. Conclusion – Atlantic Isles
  62. Notes
  63. Bibliography
  64. Primary sources
  65. Guidebooks
  66. Travel writing
  67. Other primary source material
  68. Periodicals, journals, magazines
  69. Newspapers
  70. Official publications
  71. Website
  72. Secondary literature
  73. Index

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