Constructing Cultural Tourism

Keith Hanley is Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University where he directed the former Ruskin Centre for eight years. He has written monographs on Wordsworth and Ruskin, has edited many essay collections on nineteenth-century indisciplinarity, including, with Greg Kucich, Nineteenth-Century Worlds: Global Formations Past and Present (Routledge, 2008), and co-edits, with David Thomas, the quarterly journal Nineteenth-Century Contexts.John K. Walton is an IKERBASQUE Research Professor in the Department of Contemporary History in the University of the Basque Country, based in Bilbao. He previously held chairs at Lancaster University, the University of Central Lancashire and Leeds Metropolitan University. He has published extensively on histories of regions, identities, resorts and tourism, especially in Britain, Spain, Belgium, France and the United States, and he contributes to debates on the role of history and ‘heritage’ in the regeneration of coastal resorts.

• Chapter One: Introduction: The Joy of TravelChapter Two: The Ruskin MomentChapter Three: Sightseeing with RuskinChapter Four: The Interpretation of PlacesChapter Five: Ruskin and Tourist DestinationsChapter Six: Ruskin and Popular TourismChapter Seven: Ruskin and the English Lakes: Brantwood as a Tourist SiteChapter Eight: Concluding Reflections: Ruskin Against the Market

Best known as a writer and art critic, this study makes a compelling case for the importance of Ruskin as a key figure in inspiring and shaping cultural tourism whether in Europe or in England for the serious minded of all social classes.