Sweet, R;
Ansell, R;
No Country for Travellers? British visitors to Spain and Portugal, 1760–1820.
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UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal between 1760 and 1820, across a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to Europe. Drawing on extensive archival and printed sources left by contemporary travellers, Rosemary Sweet and Richard Ansell reveal the unheralded significance of the two countries to eighteenth-century British culture, and their attraction as destinations long before the Peninsular War and nineteenth-century romanticism. Along the way, the book’s compelling narrative reveals the realities of Iberian travel, the different itineraries that travellers followed, the place of Spanish and Portuguese cities in the British imagination, and the importance of mediators in cultural exchange, on the Iberian side as well as the British. The travellers’ memoirs reflect changing perceptions of Spain and Portugal as modernisation raised new hopes that vied with pessimism and ancient prejudice, and also the persistence of cultural stereotypes, while the counterintuitive relationship between civilian travel and armed conflict emerges through a case study of the Peninsular War. Finally, focusing on contemporary fascination with the Alhambra in Granada, the authors examine the rise of British interest in Iberia’s Islamic history, with its significance for contemporary understandings of ‘Europe’.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | No Country for Travellers? British visitors to Spain and Portugal, 1760–1820 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800088733 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800088733 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088733 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Authors, 2025 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Sweet, R. and Ansell, R. 2025. No Country for Travellers? British visitors to Spain and Portugal, 1760–1820. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088733 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | travel, travel writing, Spain, Portugal |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10212212 |
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