Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth century Liguria

Piana, Pietro, Watkins, Charles and Balzaretti, Ross (2018) Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth century Liguria. Rural History, 29 (2). pp. 167-193. ISSN 1474-0656

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Abstract

New roads and later railways were essential for the modernisation and rapid economic development of North-western Italy in the early nineteenth century. The new routes also encouraged an increasing number of foreign travellers to visit the region. They opened up fresh tracts of countryside and provided novel viewpoints and points of interest; many travellers took the opportunity to record these views with topographical drawings and watercolours. In this paper we make use of some of these views to examine how the modernized transport routes released new places to be celebrated by tourists and became themselves features and objects of especial interest and comment. We examine the works of three artists, one English and two Italian, who depicted landscapes of contrasting rural Ligurian landscapes. Their drawings and prints are contextualised and interpreted with maps, field data, archival documents and contemporary descriptions of roads and railways by travellers and in guidebooks.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: © Cambridge University Press 2018
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Arts > School of Humanities > Department of History
University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Geography
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793318000079
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Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 17 Apr 2018 09:04
Last Modified: 01 Oct 2018 12:50
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/51197

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