“Stock in der Hand / Löcher im Gewand / Wandern wir gar müßig / Durch das wunderbare Land”: Notes by European Travellers in Welsh Visitors’ Books

Rita Singer

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Abstract

Visitors’ books not only trace developments in modern tourism, but they also reveal changes in the socio-cultural and language attitudes of travellers from all walks of life over prolonged periods of time. This article investigates messages in visitors’ books from Wales from the mid-nineteenth century up to the present and argues for their recognition as microforms of travel writing. Despite their brevity, entries in visitors’ books are a highly complex form of travel writing particularly in the inscribers’ self-fashioning of identity for future readers. The article examines how writerly choices are not only directly rooted in the discourse of travel, but also in socio-political circumstances in the individual travellers’ countries of origin and their travel destinations.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 18 Jul 2014
Externally publishedYes
EventAmrywiaeth Ieithyddol yng Nghymru / Language Diversity in Wales - National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Duration: 18 Jul 201419 Jul 2014
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Conference

ConferenceAmrywiaeth Ieithyddol yng Nghymru / Language Diversity in Wales
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
CityAberystwyth
Period18 Jul 201419 Jul 2014
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Keywords

  • Wales
  • Europe
  • visitors' books
  • travel writing
  • identity
  • performance
  • modern languages

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