Touring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century Anderson Jocelyn
Touring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century Anderson Jocelyn Over the course of the long 18th century, many of England's grandest country houses became known for…
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Touring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century Anderson Jocelyn
Over the course of the long 18th century, many of England's grandest country houses became known for displaying noteworthy architecture and design, large collections of sculptures and paintings, and expansive landscape gardens and parks. Increasingly accessible to tourists, and extensively described by travel writers, they began to be celebrated as sites of great importance to national culture. Although these houses continued to function as residences and spaces of elite retreat, they had powerful public identities.
Touring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century examines how these identities emerged, repositioning the importance of country houses in 18th-century Britain and exploring what it took to turn them into tourist attractions.Drawing on travel books, guidebooks, and dozens of tourists' diaries and letters, it explores what it meant