{"product_id":"9781501384615","title":"Touring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTouring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJocelyn Anderson\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eArt \/ European\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver 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. Although these houses continued to function as residences and spaces of elite retreat, they had powerful public identities. Increasingly accessible to tourists, and extensively described by travel writers, they began to be celebrated as sites of great importance to national culture. \u003ci\u003eTouring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on travel books, guidebooks, and dozens of tourists' diaries and letters, it explores what it meant to tour country houses such as Blenheim Palace, Chatsworth, Wilton, Kedleston and Burghley in the tumultuous 1700s. It also questions the legacies of these early tourists: both as a critical cultural practice in the 18th century, and an extraordinary and controversial influence in British culture today, country-house tourism is a topic of rich debate for students, scholars and patrons of the heritage sector.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJocelyn Anderson \u003c\/b\u003ehas worked in the Learning Department at Tate Britain and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Birkbeck, and the University of East Anglia in the UK. She holds a PhD and MA in Art History from the Courtauld and a BA from McGill University, Canada. Anderson's research explores art in Britain, Canada, and across the British Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eTouring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) and \u003ci\u003eWilliam Brymner: Life and Work \u003c\/i\u003e(2020).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e19 May 2022\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Visual Arts\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781501384615\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e256\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18.56\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51333202116748,"sku":"9781501384615","price":33.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_e55e86cd-f8e8-4469-87bf-ecdd9f21ff07.jpg?v=1783609067","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781501384615","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}