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著者名 書名 出版社 出版年
Saeko Yoshikawa William Wordsworth and Modern Travel: Railways, Motorcars and the Lake District, 1830-1940 Liverpool University Press 2020

【梗概】
Spanning the period 1830-1940 this book explores Wordsworth’s extraordinary influence on the tourist landscapes of the English Lake District, throughout the age of railways, with the arrival of motorcars, and during and after the First World War. It reveals how Wordsworth’s responses to railways were not a straightforward matter of opposition and protest; his ideas were taken up both by advocates and opponents of railways, and through their controversies, had a surprising impact on the earliest motorists as they sought a language to describe the liberty and independence of their new mode of transport. Early motorists invented a new ‘poetry of motion’, drawing on romantic imagery to evoke the sublime sensations of moving at speed through changing scenery, at times feeling something akin to oneness with nature. Once the age of motoring was underway, the outbreak of the First World War encouraged British people to connect Wordsworth’s patriotic passion with his wish to protect the Lake District landscape as a national heritage--a transition that would have momentous effects in the interwar period, when popular motoring paradoxically brought a vogue for open-air activities and a renewal of romantic pedestrianism. With the arrival of global tourism, preservation of the cultural landscape of the Lake District became an urgent national and international concern. This book explores how patterns of tourist behaviour and environmental awareness changed in the century of popular tourism, examining how Wordsworth’s vision and language shaped modern ideas of travel, self-reliance, landscape and environment, cultural heritage, preservation, and accessibility.

【目次】
List of Figures
Introduction
Chapter 1: Wordsworth and Railways
Chapter 2: The Railway Controversy in Wordsworth’s Lake District
Chapter 3: The Arrival of Motorcars
Chapter 4: Romantic Motorists, Romantic Cyclists
Chapter 5: The First World War and the Lake District
Chapter 6: Post-War Motoring in the Lake District, 1920s-30s
Chapter 7: Wordsworthian Tourism in the Interwar Period
Epilogue: ‘Access for All’
Bibliography

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