Continental Tourism, Travel Writing, and the Consumption of Culture, 1814–1900

This book explores the boundaries of British continental travel and tourism in the nineteenth century, stretching from Norway to Bulgaria, from visitors’ albums to missionary efforts, from juvenilia to joint authorship. The essay topics invoke new aesthetics of travel as consumption, travel as satire, and of the developing culture of tourism.  Chronologically arranged, the book charts the growth and permutations of this new consumerist ideology of travel driven by the desires of both men an