The Poetics of the Guidebook: The Transformation of the Cultural Landscape and Literary Tourism in the Nineteenth-Century Lake District

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370298
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: Yoshikawa Saeko 神戸市外国語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (60316031)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ワーズワス / 環境意識 / 旅行ガイド / 文化的景観 / 英国湖水地方 / 文学観光 / 文化遺産

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project explored how the cultural landscape of the English Lake District, in which tourism is compatible with environmental preservation, was formed through nineteenth-century literary tourism. By re-examining Wordsworth’s works in terms of the poetics of the guidebook, and analyzing how the Lake District as Wordsworth’s Country was represented in guidebooks, travel articles and illustrations in the nineteenth century, I demonstrated how Wordsworthian sensibility towards nature was cultivated and disseminated among tourist readers. As a whole, this research revealed the role of Wordsworth in the production of the cultural landscape of the Lake District, which is now regarded as a national cultural heritage to be protected for future generations.

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