William Wordsworth and Modern Travel: Railways, Motorcars and the Lake District, 1830-1940

by Saeko Yoshikawa

This book explores Wordsworth's extraordinary influence on the tourist landscapes of the Lake District throughout the age of railways, motorcars and the First World War. It reveals how Wordsworth's response to railways was not a straightforward matter of opposition and protest; his ideas were taken up by both advocates and opponents of railways, and through their controversies had a surprising impact on the earliest motorists as they sought a language...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789621186
• ISBN13: 9781789621181
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"