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Dženita Karić
Published: 13 December 2022
... Adolfo Veber Bosanska Vila disease health pandemics Sarajevski list Variola Vera Marković Goran women al Badawī Aḥmed tourism Islam cont Qur’an the Egypt Handžić Mehmed honeymoon travel travel wealth inclusivity borders diversity geography state the Sarajevo Greece imprisonment...
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Malcolm Andrews
Published: 01 October 2020
... for landscape that goes beyond the picturesque simplicities of the early works, becoming both powerfully impressionist and expressionist as it is made to articulate the dramatic energy of the narrative. Is She His Wife? landscape Old Curiosity Shop The picturesque the Ruskin John tourism urban life...
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Placing Dickens
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Charlotte Mathieson
Published: 01 October 2020
...This chapter explores the legacy of ‘placing Dickens’ through the practice of literary tourism from his death to the present day. The first section situates the interest in Dickens and place in historical context, charting the rise of Dickensian tourism in the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth...
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Published: 31 May 2013
... - in the form of bureaucratic paper trails, ruins or visitable memorial sites or in the form of fantasies of absolute dominance. The chapter analyses the grammar of these fantasies as symptoms of a cultural ambivalence towards fascism that manifests itself as literary and commemorative dark tourism. Goldhagen...
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(Loch Ness) Monster Movie: A Return to Primal Scotland
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David Martin-Jones
Published: 30 September 2005
...This chapter examines the Loch Ness monster movie, an incarnation of the monster genre completely ignored in academic discussions of Scotland and cinema. It begins with a brief overview of the history of Nessie, including its relationship with tourism and the ways in which the early British Nessie...
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Conclusion
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David Martin-Jones
Published: 30 September 2005
... film coproductions and location shooting will, because of the mutual benefit that Scotland's landscape brings to filmmakers from outside Scotland, the Scottish film industry and related industries like tourism. The increasingly blurry boundaries surrounding the category of ‘Scottish’ cinema require...
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Published: 31 May 2013
... introduced state-sponsored support for the arts – the Arts Council – and the growing awareness of tourism as an important ingredient in the local and national economy. It explores the politics of cultural provision in 1940s Britain – including tensions relating to national cultural identity...
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Published: 01 February 2019
... Robert Conrad Peter Croker John Wilson Stabler Jane Said Edward Adorno Theodor Wyrtzen Lesley Byron Don Juan migration epic capitalism tourism exile The work of George Gordon, Lord Byron, may seem an odd place to look for early discussions of migration and precarity. Why would we expect...
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Who Runs Edinburgh?
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David McCrone
Published online: 21 September 2023
Published in print: 31 October 2022
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Published online: 20 May 2021
Published in print: 15 September 2020
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Introduction Trailing a Photograph
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Edhem Eldem
Published: 12 January 2024
... and director of the Imperial Museum Gérôme Jean Léon French artist mosque s Andalusia Andalusian Moresque Generalife Khālidī Rāgheb Palestinian scholar America American architecture colonialism colonies Africa African Alhambresque exoticism Photography Orientalism Rafael Garzón Tourism Khalil...
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Towards a Journey Narrative Syntax
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Christopher Holliday
Published: 01 June 2018
... more prepared or expected. This chapter explores in detail how computer-animated films deploy these two forms of journey narrative structure to interrogate ideas of mobility, location, destination and tourism through the virtual experiences they offer of travelled space. Chapter Two concludes...
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Published: 31 May 2013
... longings. Such dark tourism uncomfortably alongside recent attempts to re-instate affect in the engagement with traumatic history, notably in Saul Friedländer’s notion of disbelief in Holocaust historiography and Alison Landsberg’s emphasis on empathy. The re-emergence of fascinating fascism suggests...
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‘As Hewers of Wood, and Drawers of Water’? Scotland as an Emigrant Nation, c. 1600 to c. 1800
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Andrew Mackillop
Published: 01 June 2016
... India Company English Hudson’s Bay Company sugar tobacco fur trade Inverness Orkneys East Indies Glasgow Africa African Algonquin Indians American Native Americans indigenous peoples Scottish migration Identities Cross-cultural encounters Slavery Economics Tourism Europe North America...
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Breaching National Borders: Rail Travel in Europe and Empire
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Anna Despotopoulou
Published: 01 April 2015
...With examples from Anthony Trollope and Henry James, Chapter 3 firstly addresses the ways in which railway travel across nations cultivated the tourist gaze, which partly consisted in the mobile and transitory glance of sites and landscapes. Tourism by train also provided men and women...
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Published: 01 November 2018
... sea temperance Torquay tourism health Bournemouth invalids Mentone France Poole Salvation Army Stevenson Robert Louis Atlantic Ocean climate police natural history London Torquay Temperance Tourism Victorian history Coasts can be considered marginal or liminal sites – beyond...
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Published: 31 August 2012
... on the tourist map. In the Borders Melrose Abbey and Scott's home at Abbotsford became tourist Meccas, as did the village of Roslin, which featured in The Lay of the Last Minstrel . This was also before developments that increased tourism. The railways were to make travel easier and a network...
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Introduction: Modernism beyond the Metropolis
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Geneva M. Gano
Published: 15 September 2020
... People Marfa Texas Modernity Modernism World-System Network Social Practice Art Colony Cultural Geography Tourism Brook Farm Marianne Moore In 1921, not long after her move to New York City, poet Marianne Moore published a poem of that title in the distinguished, New York-based little magazine...
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Published: 15 September 2020
...-inspired balls, ‘straight’ photography, music festivals, and literary work of all stripes. This chapter describes the strange blend of intellectuals, bohemians, socialists, and businessmen that made the Carmel colony exemplary and excavates the history of land development for the high-end tourism and real...
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Cultivating the Taos Mystique
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Geneva M. Gano
Published: 15 September 2020
...Unlike the new development at Carmel and the recently revitalized fishing village of Provincetown, the old frontier trading post of Taos, New Mexico, was experiencing slow, steady growth at the turn of the twentieth century. The rapid, regional expansion of a modern, automobile-based tourism...